Pencil Quotes

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce Meyer

Dream, Anywhere

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

Easy, Looks, Thousand

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
Walt Disney

Days, Sign, Pen

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

Great, Everything, Again

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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience, Long, Enough

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

Long, Thought, Dead

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

Job, Holy, Ghost

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.
Earl Nightingale

Best, Night, Before

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.
John Steinbeck

Long, Old, Though

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

Art, Film, Paper

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

Future, Long, Worth

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.
Theodor Adorno

Happiness, Truth, Thought

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

Water, Horse, Lead

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.
Samuel Beckett

Life, Book, Him

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
Balthus

Eyes, Cannot, Draw

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.
Brooke Burns

Sexy, Black, Night

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.
Hugh Laurie

Love, Men, Feeling

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.
Stephen Sondheim

Yourself, Everything, Down

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

Big, Write, Name

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.
Mindy Kaling

Time, Down, Percent

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

Writing, Advantage, Judgment

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
Julie Burchill

Women, War, Smart

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.
Robert Wyatt

Amazing, Down, Thoughts

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

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

Free, Computer, Totally

I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.
Beth Ditto

Through, Hair, Month

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

Mother, False, Essential

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

Time, Golf, Excellent

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

Art, Poetry, Everyone

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.
Michael LeBoeuf

Time, Focus, Down

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