Pencils Quotes

• I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

  

  Willow Smith
  • Feels
  • Stuck
  • Pencils

• I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Work
  • Think
  • Pencils

• 3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

  

  Seymour Cray
  • Design
  • Humorous
  • Witty

• It lighting the set up is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Artist
  • Drawing
  • Finals

• She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Hair
  • Walking
  • Giants

• To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.

  

  David Rees
  • People
  • Enough
  • Human

• I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Waiting
  • Paris
  • Notebook

• Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Ridiculous
  • Closing
  • Slap

• Why, did you know that if a beaver two feet long with a tail a foot and a half long can build a dam twelve feet high and six feet wide in two days, all you would need to build Boulder Dam is a beaver sixty-eight feet long with a fifty-one-foot tail?" "Where would you find a beaver that big?" grumbled the Humbug as his pencil point snapped. "I'm sure I don't know," he replied, "but if you did, you'd certainly know what to do with him.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Bigs
  • Feet
  • Beavers

• I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Film
  • Son
  • Feels

• It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • People
  • Today
  • Computer

• It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • World
  • Men
  • Capable

• I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

  

  Cecil Balmond
  • Paper
  • Architect
  • Pencils

• Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Truth
  • Color
  • Needs

• I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Sometimes

• We are all pencils in the hand of God.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Pencils

• Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Baseball
  • Humor

• No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell...

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Books
  • Hell
  • Teachers

• I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Paper
  • Pencils

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Paper

• I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Oh relax." I waved my hand dismissively. "If he wanted to kill me, he already would have. I brought him all these sharp pencils, ideal for stabbing, and he's been a perfect gentleman.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Perfect
  • Relax
  • Gentleman

• I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Writing
  • Lord
  • Imperfect

• I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

  

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • Children
  • Pencils
  • Throwing

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