Quotes with pencil

  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Alexander Maclaren Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Ogden Nash Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures - take them, George, they're yours!
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Truman Capote I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • John Philip Sousa I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
    John Philip Sousa
    American composer and conductor (1854 - 1932)
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  • Beth Ditto 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
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Balthus One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Bruce Dickinson One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Walt Disney 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
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Bronislaw Malinowski The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
    Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)
    Bronislaw Malinowski
    Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884 - 1942)
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  • Francis Bacon The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William Blake Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Michael LeBoeuf 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
    American business author and management professor (1942 - )
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