It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

- Dave Mustaine

I have always been a pencil.

- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

- Grace Darling

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

- Francis Bacon

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

- Eric San

I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

- Elsa Peretti

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

- Edward Witten

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

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.

- Dave Sim

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

- Dolly Parton

Our TV and movie cops are usually in heels and pencil skirts.

- Allison Tolman

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

- Darrell Royal

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

- Catherine Fisher

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

- Clyde Tombaugh

The computer is a tool, just like pencil or charcoal, allowing illustrators to manipulate images from their sketchbooks.

- Chris Riddell

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

- Cy Twombly

I work pretty quickly. I'd probably draw somebody once or twice in pencil, then just go to ink. Not really care too much about it, and it just kind of worked out.

- Box Brown

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

- Bernard Malamud

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

- Balthus

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.

- Antonio Damasio