Top 144 Pencils Quotes & Sayings

I've never liked spending a lot of time on beauty stuff. I have two eye pencils that I use, and that's it.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

I assumed that the pencil market was collapsing, but then it turns out that from 2010 to 2011 in the United States, pencil consumption went up by over six percent. I mean, those are all foreign-made pencils. Those are probably Chinese pencils, mostly, and Mexican pencils. I mean, it is an archaic communication technology, but it is still ubiquitous.

I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.

I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.

Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling

I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.

I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.

I take pop culture really seriously, I think it's really important, and the stuff that I make...I don't want it to be insubstantial, even if it's about something wacky, like sharpening pencils. I feel like I owe it to myself and I owe it to people who are really interested in pencils and I owe it to anybody to do my due diligence and give them something real.

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?

I got a pouch at Chelsea Market in NYC that says, 'Art Is More Important Than Math.' It has pencils and a highlighter. I always have to sign something or highlight a script.

I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

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.

I started sharpening pencils at the census and how that was a difficult time in my life because my marriage was ending and I had quit cartooning and I didn't know what to do with myself.

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.

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

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.

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.

I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

I talked to people in the pencil industry and I talked to people as I was sharpening their pencils about the frustrations they have with pencils, so I really did do my research and I do know more about pencils than most people.

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore. They're sharp enough. Even the dull ones will make a mark.

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

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it would - it was very natural for me to want to paint, I think, and it was never a question.

Everyone has pencils in their house, no matter how hip and contemporary they are.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

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.

It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'

Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work.

Every student should be able to start the school year with the supplies they need, and shouldn't feel left out if their family is unable to afford a new backpack, notebooks, and pencils.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

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.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

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.

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

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.

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.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

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.

I hardly ever use pencils. I'm left-handed and it's really messy if you're left-handed because of the graphite smudging. I use them more now than I used to because there's, like, 15,000 pencils all over my house.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

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.

'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.

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

Students can't dream big when classrooms lack books, microscopes, and robotics kits - or even paper, pencils, and paste.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd.

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.

Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.

We are all pencils in the hand of God.

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.

My teacher once told me – ”No one is perfect……..that is why pencils have erasers.”

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.