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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. -- A. A. Milne
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream." -- Adam Braun
Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream. -- Adam Braun
What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart. -- Gunter Brus
Map out your future, but do it in pencil. -- Jon Bon Jovi
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. -- Joyce Meyer
Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point. -- Tyga
My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser -- George Watsky
We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil. -- Robin S
What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it? -- Jules Verne
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, -- William Faulkner
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. -- Terry Tempest Williams
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. -- Mother Teresa
What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil. -- Kay Ryan
The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. -- Robert Benchley
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
I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more. -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. -- Nora Ephron
When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. -- Oscar Niemeyer
I may not be the strongest guy or the most well armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody. -- John Milius
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it. -- Jeanette Winterson
I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing. -- John Burns
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past. -- Rod Serling
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. -- Carl Reiner
'Lizzie McGuire' was my big thing when I was younger. I did buy some pencils and back-to-school stuff of hers because she was on it. I loved her. -- Jordin Sparks
I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils. -- Michael Reagan
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around. -- Richard Paul Evans
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. -- Don Bluth
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
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
I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old. -- Robert Indiana
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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
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points. -- Tony Kushner
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
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
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens. -- Scott Turow
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
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 you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me. -- Naomie Harris
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
In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were unable to claim any sort of identity. Others I met found who they truly were, and they generally found it through service to others. They became teachers when there was no school, books or pencils. -- Deborah Ellis
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
Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue. -- Stone Gossard
#3 pencils and quadrille pads. -- Seymour Cray
We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils. -- Dave Eggers
Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils. -- Rick Barnett
We are all pencils in the hand of God. -- Mother Teresa
Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils -- Tommy Lasorda
I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils. -- Nancy Lam
Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes? -- Nellie L. McClung
Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work. -- Ernest Hemingway
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past. -- Rod Serling
Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling -- Larry the Cable Guy
I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls. -- Sasha Pivovarova
Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon. -- Malala Yousafzai
Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are. -- David Rees
The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference. -- Sara Sheridan
It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.' -- David Rees
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer ) -- Seymour Cray
I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun. -- David Rees
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs. -- Philip Pullman
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. -- Barbara Kingsolver
There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark. -- Ze Frank
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You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice. -- Edwidge Danticat
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I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils. -- David Rees
I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it. -- Justine Bateman
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell -- Stephen Chbosky
I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score. -- John Betjeman
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo. -- Mark Twain
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that? -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I liked sharpening pencils and I was like, "Oh, I wonder if I could get paid to do it." And I figured it out and I did it. -- David Rees
Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Its a way for you to support the children by sending pencils, beanie babies or soccer balls. That all started because of one of those convoys I was on. -- Gary Sinise
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door. -- Michael Ondaatje
Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me. -- Joan Miro
Greatest quotes were not from the pencils of great men but from the the tablets of great minds who are willing to lead their minds on the journey of thought. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
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
Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them. -- Enric Sala
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
There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off. -- Agatha Christie

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