24 Pencils Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm impressed by the way some illustrators develop their images on computers, but it's too late for me to start, and I'm still in love with paper and paint and pencils. Anthony Browne

Love Me Too Late Too Late Way Paper Pencils Some Computers Develop Still Impressed Paint Start Images

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded. Bharati Mukherjee

Alone Me You Age Money School Care Guarded Took Pencils Out Constantly Never Had Taking Know Couple Always Were Up Walked Handled Behind Wanted Notebook Bodyguards Who Growing Growing Up Street Needed

Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit to violins for a school recital to microscope slides for a biology class. Charles Best

My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, and often we couldn't get the resources that would excite our students about learning. Charles Best

Learning Money Own Our Resources Spend Paper Pencils Colleagues Would About Students Excite Lot Get Often Copy

My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life... And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils. Charles Best

Life Buy Conversation Matter Own Field Our Books Paper Pencils Colleagues Would Trip About Pockets Having Students Knew Most Read Always Go Were Subject Subject Matter Same Just Wanted Us Really Teachers Bring

My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy, paper, and pencils. I just figured there are people out there who would want to help teachers like us if they could see exactly where their money was going. Charles Best

People Money Own Our Spend Paper Pencils Colleagues Out Would Exactly See Could Like Lot Going Just Where Want Us Teachers Help Figured Who Copy

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects. Clive Thompson

We use paper documents to store knowledge so we can consult and reconsult it, giving us a type of recall impossible with our unaided minds; we use pencils to scratch down material so we can manipulate it in a fashion impossible in our unaided minds. Clive Thompson

Fashion Knowledge Impossible Giving Down Type Our Minds Paper Pencils Consult Documents Material Scratch Store Manipulate Us Use Recall

Too often, I hear stories of teachers and parents spending part of their paychecks to ensure there are supplies in the classroom - even basic necessities like pens, pencils and paper. This is unacceptable. Doug Ducey

Parents Too Spending Paper Ensure Pencils Unacceptable Pens Classroom Part Supplies Like Hear Often Stories Teachers Even Basic Necessities

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. Gary Oldman

Me You Car Gave Nine Those Drawing Pencils Would Some Loner Take Put Hours Always Were Hear Rockets Very Quiet Where Children Crayons Room Straight Planes Racing Racing Cars Away Fast Things

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. Immanuel Velikovsky

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? Jerry Pournelle

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing. John Burns

Writing Pencils Boy Want Use

When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer. Jonathan Anderson

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. L. Neil Smith

War Free Politicians Military Corners Market Unless Pencils Find Free Market Talents Employs Policemen Dubious Were Sell Cup Tin Bureaucrats Place War On Drugs Now Street Millions

Because of the shape of my eyes, I can wear a lot of make-up. I can do a smoky look in the evening, but in the day I wear a lot less. Most women don't deal with lip pencils - they have been given a bad name, but are essential, especially as we get older. Lulu

When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing. M. J. Rose

You Facebook Writing Coffee Email Pencils Out Characters Dream Stay Brutal Writers Sharpen Check Over Heads Make Read Still Up Get Stop Fictive Procrastinate Page Your Zip

I've always been a very visual creator. I make mood boards or sit with coloured pencils and scribble and try and figure out what I'm trying to work through musically. Maggie Rogers

Work Try Sit Mood Musically Pencils Out Visual Through Coloured Make Always Been Very Trying Scribble Boards Figure Creator

When we were children, every day after school, my brother and sister and I would go to my mother's office. It was full of pencils and marker and fabrics and beads. It was so much fun to be a child and to express my creativity through drawing and to playing dress-up in all of the wonderful and colorful clothes. Margherita Missoni

Day Creativity Every Day Wonderful School Mother Sister Clothes Every Drawing Pencils Would Brother Brother And Sister Fabrics Dress-Up Beads Through Colorful Go Were Child Office So Much Fun Children After After-School Much Full Fun Express Playing

I was a magazine illustrator for many years before I became an actor, and I used to think, 'Oh, God, all those wasted years!' But now I think it's just been one big enterprise of illustrating. I used to do it with colored pencils, and now I do it with this voice and this set of limbs. Michael Emerson

God Big Before Think Those Pencils Enterprise Magazine Voice Colored Limbs Became Been Years Oh Just Oh God Used Many Now Actor Wasted Illustrating Illustrator Set

What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait. Ron Rash

Myself You Eyes Hate Sometimes Wait Become Sit Else Punish Those Pencils Able Rather Write Writer Almost Days Stick Makes Going Just Anything Anything Else Convinced Your

I was terrified of girls until sophomore year of high school. I couldn't even borrow pencils from them. I'd have to wait until the teacher called me out on it, like, 'Does anybody have a pencil for Teddy?' because I'd be too scared to ask the girl next to me. Teddy Geiger

Teacher Me School Wait Girl Year Too Pencil Pencils Out High Scared High School Borrow Like Sophomore Sophomore Year Until Terrified Because Does Anybody Them Ask Next Even Teddy

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