#pencil

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

#axe #axes #blunt #equally #impossible

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#all things #bit #boxing #chi #current

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#could #day #draw #drawn #every

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#became #film #inexpensive #materials #only

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. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#another #beginning #book #exercise #him

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 #landscape #making #must #painting

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

#consensus #corporate #documents #drafted #each

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#easy #farming #field #looks #mighty

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#away #cars #children #crayons #drawing

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#always #any #comes #hour #i