“ A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. ”
- Robert S. McNamara- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ”
- Robert Brault- Copy
- 848
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
“ People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. ”
- Walt Disney- Copy
- 552
“ A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. ”
- Paul Graham- Copy
- 2.8K
“ To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. ”
- Josh Jenkins- Copy
- 84
“ Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. ”
- Earl Nightingale- Copy
- 1.9K
“ You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier, You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace, Broad for the self-complacent British sneer, His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face. ”
- Tom Taylor- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ”
- Harold Ross- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas. ”
- Alexander Maclaren- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It's the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors. ”
- Rhys Alexander- Copy
- 97
“ Farming looks easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some million-dollar ideas for yourself. ”
- Bob Grinde- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3K
“ Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower- Copy
- 479
“ You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true… ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 3.5K
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