83 Pencil Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

You Field Corn Pencil Plow Thousand Thousand Miles Easy Looks Mighty Your Miles Farming

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

Inspirational You Pencil Dream Take Anywhere

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. Adam Braun

Life Love Music Future Communicate Amazing Beauty Our Our Love Pencil Give Life-Changing Poetry Write Untold Equations Amazing Things Uplifting Transcendent Sketch Us Aspirations Things

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

You Water Pencil Must Horse Lead

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

Art Experience Long Enough Lying Draw Pencil Would Would-Be Only Perfect Colored Had Supreme Altogether Bed Ceiling

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

Art Eyes Draw Pencil Must Always Cannot

Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. Darell Hammond

Education Learning Thinking Increasingly Our Way Worst Pencil System Embracing Inside Classroom Stuff Opposed Diametrically Questions Optional Frivolous Via Happens Which Choice Measured Fun Multiple Serious Play

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

Service You Yourself Down Everything Paper Worst Pencil Worst Thing Must Put Until Edit Get Hits Censor Thing

I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again. Dean Kamen

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 You Focus Thought Few Down Think Tools Paper Pencil Excellent Write Attention Thus Concentration Ideas Make Another Same Any Same Time Automatically Them Us Your Full

My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born. Adam Braun

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I always lose every single pencil I ever had. So I can draw with everything. With pencil, with pen. Alessandro Michele

Single Lose Every Everything Pen Draw Pencil Had Always Ever

For events, I do use make-up, but normally I don't. I might use a bit of eyebrow pencil and a lipstick but nothing else. Alicia Vikander

Events Nothing Else Bit Pencil Eyebrow Normally Lipstick Might Use

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes. Amy Cuddy

Practice Holding Teeth Pencil Minutes Between Smiling Your Twenty

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. Bernard Malamud

Pencil Idea Quickly Get Moving

I work pretty quickly. I'd probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out. Box Brown

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her. Brian Selznick

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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

Black Half Way Pencil Eye Rim Hurry Sexy Minute Totally Mascara Put Around Lot Just Inner Night

I want to put the joy of creativity, of drawing every day, of having a go and being surprised at what one can achieve with just a pencil and an idea at the heart of my term as laureate. I want to make sure people have fun whilst addressing fundamental issues I care about passionately. Chris Riddell

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Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. Cy Twombly

Writing Walls Pencil Like Linear Done

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

Time Pencil Excellent Courses Got Golf Four

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years. Dave Sim

Book Pure Back Monthly Pencil Would Write Part Comic Comic Book Years Whether Stamina Fill Letter Ink Tone

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