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

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.
Harlan Howard

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.
Theodor Adorno

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

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

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

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.
Aaron Spelling

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

Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.
Jon Postel

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.
Jean Cocteau

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
Truman Capote

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 don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.
William Merritt Chase

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.
Robert Wyatt

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.
Joe Shuster

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
Otis Blackwell

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck