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

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. ↗

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#down #fantasies #hankering #having #hurrying

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#back #calendar #calendars #could #days

Healthcare is growing now at about 10 per cent per annum in the U.S. top line, versus 3 per cent for the economy. As someone with a sharp pencil and an eye for this kind of thing, this can't last. ↗

— James Chanos

#cent #economy #eye #growing #healthcare

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

#board #drawing #hand #look #make

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#everyone #grasp #paper #pencil #piece

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#altogether #bed #ceiling #colored #draw

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 #little #make #pencil #really

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool. ↗