Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."
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Pencils
32 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Robin S
Artist
"We need to sharpen our focus & live to the point just like a pencil."
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers."
Bob Dylan
Singer-songwriter
"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."
May Sarton
Poet
"Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd."
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"I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
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"I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil."
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"If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?"
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"Type as quickly as you can and always carry a pencil."
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"The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil."
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"Somebody was using the pencil."
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"He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening."
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