Pencil Quotes

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

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

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 try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.