Pencil Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

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.

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!

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

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

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

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

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.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper, pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting.

We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

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.