Pencils Quotes
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.
He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.
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.
I wanted to get paid to sharpen pencils originally just because I thought it would be fun.
She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.
It would be amazing to tell my grandchildren, like, 'Yeah, I was paid to sharpen 1,000 pencils.'
You're not going to be on top of mountain all by yourself with a #2 pencil What we need to learn is how to learn.
I didn't dare to dream of making money. But now of course, I've made many thousands of dollars sharpening pencils.
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.
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.
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.
The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.
You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.
Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the graphite.
