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I found not being able to use a pen or pencil as defeating as the loss of her beak would be to a hen.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
— Edsger Dijkstra
Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
— G.K. Chesterton
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
— Ian McKellen
I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.
— Stephen King
Be glad that I haven't take out the pen, the rubber and the pencil once taken... all will die.
— Deyth Banger
Remember that incident in Egypt with the #No. 2 pencil?" "Don't be ridiculous," I snapped. "That was a Pentel, not a #No. 2.
— Jana Deleon
The ink line drawing flowed the cursive journey,created on paper canvas that brought the story to life. — Jazz Feylynn
The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory
— Mark Batterson
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.
— David Levithan
Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.
— Hudson Taylor
A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
— Howard Whitley Eves
Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.
— Emily Saliers
Being an artist is the same as being a wizard. Only instead of a wand you use a pencil for your magic.
— Kristina Webb
The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.
— Marty Neumeier
Different styles work for different guys ... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.
— Cal Ripken Jr.
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
— John Green
The pen feels unnatural in my hand. It's so much weightier than pencil. Permanent. There are no erasers, in life. - Alexis Riggs
— Cynthia Hand
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
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
— Stephen Leacock
The mind writes with a pen, the heart, with a pencil.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
— George Steiner
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
— James Dyson
Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.
— Jacqueline Winspear
I normally like to do a lip pencil and then fill it in with the same pencil because it stays on all day, and you don't have to reapply it.
— Khloe Kardashian
You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.
— Paul Strisik
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
— Bernard Malamud
We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil.
— Robin S. Sharma
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
— John Lasseter
You write because the brain is an endless wilderness whose roughest terrain can only be traveled with a pencil.
— Durs Grunbein
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God
— Mother Teresa
In order to hold off the Forces of Darkness, you will need a number two pencil and a calendar, preferably one without pictures of kitties on it.
— Christopher Moore
Free from ivory-towerthe pencil twirls
across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar
pencil the exact middle of the head's height. Place a horizontal line there; this should be located below the eyebrows' line.
— Vladimir London
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
Chomsky is a pencil-and-paper theoretician who wouldn't know Jabba the Hutt from the Cookie Monster,
— Steven Pinker
The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Writing with one pencil in hand is so much easier than the choosing of 114 buttons to press in series for an extended period of time.
— Robert N. Franz
Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
— Antonio Damasio
The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.
— Larry Osborne
It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.
— Julia Alvarez
Right. The dance. I reply with all the whit of a pencil. Now who's rocking the eye avoidance? That would be me.
— Amy Lunderman
The world is a pencil not a pen. — Todd Boss
I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.
— Kat Graham
The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.
— Norman Foster
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
— Truman Capote
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
— Carl Sandburg
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
— John Philip Sousa
I am the sharpest pencil because I live outside the box.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.
— Gunter Brus
As for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.
— Dorothy Parker
Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.
— Bill Anderson
Don't misuse the pencil and don't torment the paper.
— Uri Shulevitz
I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
— William Merritt Chase
Somebody was using the pencil.
— Dorothy Parker
was absorbed and deaf to the world; alternately scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil. It
— Kenneth Grahame
....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.
— Bruce Black
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
— George Carlin
Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
— Charles Dickens
A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.
— Marianne Boruch
The pencil is mightier than the pen.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.
— Shaun Hick
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit.
— Michael Dirda
The Difference between Writers and Editors.Writers are creative using one end of a pencil.
Editors are more adept using the opposite end. — Roy A. Higgins
The natural fragrance of her body was a spicy, angry smell like that of fresh pencil shavings.
— Michael Chabon
Seeing how a hand carves out meaning with a pencil point lets us remember that the human touch is essential.
— Jill Ciment
The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.
— Chris Riddell
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
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem
— Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.
— Robert Benchley
NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.
— Will Chabot
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I expected perfection as soon as the pencil hit the paper, and since that's impossible, I couldn't get myself to start.
— Felicia Day
We pencil sketch our past lives so we can compare it to the Technicolor of the moment.
— David Levithan
Fucking bastard, I'll stab you in the chest with this pencil.
— Koushun Takami
