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" A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. "

" About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. "

Edsger Dijkstra

" 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 McNamara

" A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners. "

" 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. "

" As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone. "

Terry Tempest Williams

" 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. "

" Both liquid and pencil eyeliner can be used on the top and bottom eyes. I then use eye shadow over the pencil to blend evenly to ensure there's no skipping and patchiness. With pencil as a base, it's easier to get a seamlessly blended effect. If a stronger line is desired, trace over the pencil line with liquid eyeliner. "

" But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses. "

" But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act. "

" College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. "

" Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist. "

" Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle. "

" Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else. "

" Every time I work with a star, I learn a lot. Also, I teach a lot because I'm a shoemaker, a designer. I'm born with a pencil in my hand. For old teenagers like me it's good to learn. "

Giuseppe Zanotti

" Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. "

" Generally, I don't pencil, especially with the autobiographical comics, although I've usually planed out composition in my head during the scripting stage. I like to work directly in ink, to keep the spontaneity and expression conveyed by a less worked over line. "

" Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last. "

" I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder. "

" I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything. "

" I always write in pencil, so I can erase. "

" I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. "

" I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. "

John Philip Sousa

" 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. "

" I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New York to New Mexico. I always write with pencil and paper. "

Martin McDonagh

" I could write about a pencil if I wanted to. You just take it back deep enough, all the way back to the tree it came from. "

" I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper - literally - and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website. "

" 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

" I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper. "

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