Pencil Quotes - page 2

In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated... (Yohji Yamamoto)
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. View quote
Alan Turing
I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library. View quote
J. D. Salinger
With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
[Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. "Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. "I wanna get an A on the test. View quote
Rick Riordan
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first. View quote
Stephan Pastis
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop. View quote
Gabrielle Zevin
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. View quote
Eugenio Montale
I definitely feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. View quote
Lily King
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. View quote
Earl Nightingale
The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister. (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. View quote
Terry Tempest Williams
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations. View quote
Adam Braun
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream. View quote
Adam Braun
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. View quote
Balthus
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. View quote
Brooke Burns
I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am. View quote
Danny Huston
But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses. View quote
Darrell Royal
A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. View quote
Harlan Howard
I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress. View quote
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing. (Kid Koala)
I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything. View quote
Linda Gray
The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. View quote
Lorna Luft
On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener. View quote
Maira Kalman
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. View quote
Michael LeBoeuf