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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.

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.

There’s such a thing as too much point on a pencil.

Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn’t make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn’t make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets – he was a carpenter and cabinet maker – and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, ‘What should I draw?’ he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, ‘Here, draw this.’ So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

It’s easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

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.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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 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.

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I’m writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I’m lucky to have her.

In middle school, I had this one teacher who would kick me out all the time. He just didn’t like me. I could ask a person next to me to borrow a pencil, and he’d kick me out of class. Besides that, I’ve never been in trouble.

At night if I’m in a hurry, I’ll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It’s a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.

When I make my drawings… the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of a man groping his way in the darkness.

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.

Tis not your work, but Love’s. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

You should always have a pencil skirt. I think knees are the ugliest part of anybody’s anatomy, so I’d look for ones that hit at the knee or right below.

My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

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.

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies – as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around.

My pencil is like a fencer’s foil.

No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is just finished. You have to trust your inner voice, your instincts, when they tell you pencils down. And you roll up your sleeves and you start over again.

And, of course, I began drawing so much – wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.