Pencil Quotes

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.

At night if I'm in a hurry, I'll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It's a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.