Larry Page

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

American Businessman

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.

American Author

Oren Etzioni

Ultimately, to me, the computer is just a big pencil. What can we sketch using this pencil that makes a positive difference to society and advances the state of the art, hopefully in an outsized way?

Celine Dion

I love pencil skirts, but I'm always looking for a top. And then I'm afraid, by myself, to match, to try colors. When I wear a dress, I know the top matches the bottom. So I can't make a mistake.

Musician

Jake Barton

Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.

American Designer

Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Dutch Painter

Samuel Beckett

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

Irish Playwright

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.

American Musician

Stephan Pastis

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

American Cartoonist

Robert A. M. Stern

Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.

American Architect

A pencil is specifically for writing or artistic drawing, not suitable for other uses.

Writing Instrument

Pencil marks can be erased, making them less permanent than pens.

Not Permanent

Pencils come in different hardness levels, affecting the darkness of the lines.

Variety of Hardness

When you 'pencil in' something, it's not final and can be changed later.

Casual Planning

To 'pencil' means to apply lightly or without strong commitment.

Light Marking

'Pencilling in' an event shows willingness, but indicates potential to change.

Provisional Commitment

Use 'pencil in' to show that an agreement or schedule is tentative.

Temporary Schedule

A 'pencil' for cosmetics is a precise tool for enhancing facial features.

Makeup Tool

Cosmetic pencils come in various colors to match personal style and preference.

Personal Style

 they were dealing with was the teacher who happen to share their name again a pre chromatic statistic and finally if you look at the size of the average donation people weren't just more willing to give when they did if they felt much more generous so they gave more than three times as much to the teachers who happen to match their pencils so that's this form of bonding

How we should name our...

 this is the piece I never forgot -- she said that there were moments where she would almost miss it, right? So, she's running to the house and she's looking for the paper and the poem passes through her, and she grabs a pencil just as it's going through her, and then she said, it was like she would reach out with her other hand

Your elusive creative...

 your friends but his or her name is not important what's important is what this person has in his or her hand it's a weird thing it's like be anything you can be a pencil it could be an orange it could be an extension cord give me anything you want but in your mind is saying who brings these or who brings this at a party do

Brain Magic - The Sleep...

 that is not absolutely necessary for the advancement of the idea. The image and words have to  dance  together in a way that makes sense. It could be a graceful dance, or an awkward dance, if that is part of the humor or idea. And then the execution. Some cartoonists sketch the idea with pencil

Inside a cartoonist's...

 and spilling his books and pencil case all over the room, now that is just harsh and verbally ironic because what you said is not what you meant. That is verbal irony. You have said the opposite of what you mean. Additionally, since you have the intention of mocking this poor person,

What is verbal irony? -...

 pencil crayons or stones or spray paint will always be doing it it's just another way I was expressing ourselves I think I'd like to keep painting bigger wildlife on bigger walls that's one of my aims so for me to be painting artwork

Street Art Inspired by...

 stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples,

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 With such delicate bodies, they rely on thousands of venom-containing stinging cells called cnidocytes for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting.

How does a jellyfish...

 written numbers are a way of expressing concepts and information. And in a world where calculations and algorithms shape more and more of our lives, the mathematician's pencil grows stronger by the day.

A brief history of...

 paper, pencils and brads -- for those of you who have gotten a little less young and remember brads -- and he said to my brother, "Just take it bird by bird, buddy. Just read about pelicans