- Nov 07, 2020
Pencil Quotes
Quotes on the humble pencil, from craft to quirky style.
This pencil quotes collection starts with early creative memories, like writing simple songs as a child, and stretches into a playful comparison between scissors and pencils as creative tools. Continue with Art quotes for more on the creative process.
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- Through
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should be sung in church, but they never were.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my biggest complaints about acting in television were that I was always wearing a tight dress or pencil skirt, and I was always wearing heels.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
- I Have Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.
- Eraser
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!
- Nov 07, 2020