Pencils Quotes

“Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I

“It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Most people don’t have shit… But paper and pencils are cheap, that’s why I draw.”
― Ida Løkås, Det fine som flyter forbi

“Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.”
― Carla H Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun

“You think they're like your pencils? That they get worn down if you use them?"
"What?"
"Feelings.”
― Anna Gavalda, Hunting and Gathering

“People always laugh at me when I tell them I’m scared of pencils, because they can’t fathom why anyone would fear a puncture wound or lead poisoning from a pencil, especially now that it’s impossible to get lead poisoning since they don’t actually contain lead. But those fuckers are sharp, and I have nightmares about getting cornered in a room and repeatedly stabbed with one. Somehow knives don’t frighten me, even though they are the more obvious tool for both a real and imagined stabbing.”
― Kate Madison, Spilled Perfume: A Memoir

“Years later, I remember the waxy taste of the yellow paint, the papery taste of splintered wood, the sharp metallic of the graphite.”
― Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

“The sound of pencils taking notes provided a low scrape and hum, almost like radio interference.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog

“Mistakes are forgiven, but only in pencil.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Empty hands can't draw by themselves.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Don't let your writing be led astray by the shortness of your pencil.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“It's the color in pencils that bring our rainbows to life.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Open up your pencil-case and let the ideas flow.”
― Anthony T. Hincks