Pencils Quotes - Page 2

• Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?

  Spike Milligan

  Use, Kind, Ophelia

  Spike Milligan, “A Silly Poem”

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• Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

  Andy Stanley

  Writing, Vision, Ink

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• My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser

  George Watsky

  Heart, Brain, Erasers

  Song: Tiny Glowing Screens, Part 2, Album: Cardboard Castles, 2013

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• The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

  Bernard Malamud

  Moving, Writing, Ideas

  Bernard Malamud, Lawrence M. Lasher (1991). “Conversations with Bernard Malamud”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

  George Carlin

  Stills, Ifs

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• The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

  Peter Marshall

  Differences, Use, Crayon

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• 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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Drawing, Sketching

  Vincent van Gogh, Dorothee Hansen, Lawrence W. Nichols, Judy Sund, Kunsthalle Bremen (2003). “Van Gogh: fields”

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• I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.

  John Howe

  Drawing, Meditation, Paper

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• Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Book, Weapons

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

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Travel, Future, Journey

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• The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

  Marty Neumeier

  Long, Design, Tools

  Marty Neumeier (2012). “Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age”, p.183, New Riders

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• Now I will give you a piece of advice. I will tell you something that I absolutely believe you should do, and if you do not do it you will never be a witer. It is a certain truth. When your pencil is dull, sharpen it. And when your pencil is sharp, use it until it is dull again.

  Mary Ruefle

  Believe, Giving, Advice

  "Madness, Rack, and Honey". Book by Mary Ruefle, therumpus.net. August 7, 2012.

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• The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

  James Dyson

  Computer

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• I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Hands, Making A Difference

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

  Stan Laurel

  Horse, Teach A Man To Fish, Water

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• We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

  Robert Fulghum

  Names, Together, Dull

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Nature, Motivation

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.798, Best Books on

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• Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.

  George Polya

  Science, Doe, Needs

  "Speaking of Science: Notable Quotes on Science, Engineering, and the Environment" by Jon Fripp, Michael Fripp, Deborah Fripp, Newnes (p. 45), 2000.

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• It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Bars, Making Changes, Easier

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• I'm one of the world's greatest pencil sharpeners.

  Truman Capote

  World, Pencil Sharpeners, Sharpener

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Doe

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• There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

  H. Allen Smith

  Too Much, Moderation, Gentility

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• I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hands, Sketching, Born

  "Karl Lagerfeld on Diets, Sobriety, and Becoming a 'Nicer Person'". Interview with Jessica Chastain, www.thecut.com. November 7, 2013.

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• What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

  Kay Ryan

  Writing, Organs, Knows

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