Pencil Quotes

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

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!

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

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.