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A horse may be coaxed to drink, but a pencil must be lead.

Stan Laurel

I would not pencil his name into my squad - I'd ink it in.

Rob Kelly

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

Robert S. McNamara

Perhaps they'll sharpen their pencil a little bit.

Chris Mcgovern

Geneva is here, so that's almost one team you have to pencil into a spot.

Tim Debruycker

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Robert Benchley

When I learned to hold a pencil, I started drawing. It was a gift from God. I kept them all entertained and I was good.

Diane Schmidt

We want No. 2 Pencil to be informative and provocative.

Greg T. Spielberg

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise -- just pencil sharpeners.

Harlan Howard

The pen and pencil of the 21st century is the computer.

Ann Smith

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Bernard Malamud

My favorite is pencil drawings.

Andy Evans

One mother said that at 8 p.m. in her kitchen, she watched her son have a spirited exchange (online) with his classmates over the content of their homework -- those things just can't happen with paper and pencil.

Calvin Baker

It would be a bookkeeping nightmare to do this on paper and pencil every month.

Jason Sorenson

They'll be there. I hope we get there, too. Ink them in. Pencil us in very lightly.

Doug Biega

He was always sweet and funny. If you needed something like a pencil or a piece of paper, he'd always give you one, even if he had to sacrifice his own.

Jane Foley

Worldly things were of little meaning. She lived for hamburgers, ice cream, pencil and paper.

Carol Adams

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

Robert Brault

I couldn't wait to borrow his 'magic pencil' and try my own hand at drawing these comic-strip characters, ... It was a major discovery, and I was floating on air with excitement.

Hank Ketcham

He had a habit of using the same rainbow-colored pencil.

Steve Siegel

The days of sitting at a little desk writing an essay in pencil are fading away.

Mark Greenberg

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It's not spit out by some computer. I have objective numbers like that, but my pencil is my coaching tool.

Joe Juraszek

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

Dave Mustaine

It's not what you use but how you use it that makes it a deadly weapon. A pencil or a bottle in a barroom brawl as well as obviously a knife, gun or bat can be a deadly weapon.

Jeff Wood

These guys commit their crimes with a pencil instead of a gun.

Mario Merola

Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits.

Katie Price

Every night, you can pencil in 20 and 10, and now all of a sudden you can pencil in 25 and 11. That's a pretty big jump for a guy that's already putting up massive numbers.

Alvin Gentry

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.

Mother Teresa Of Calcutta

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

Jon Bon Jovi

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

[But Alex Padilla, incoming league president and prominent Los Angeles Democrat, said] the governor is way off. ... won't know where the blue pencil will hit the hardest.

Alex Padilla

Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer.

Carl Sandburg

My concern as we go along will be that if you can't pencil it out, it won't work.

Dorothy Gallagher

I have seen a guy try to pound a pencil through his head because we interrupted a meeting.

Edward Appelson