Eraser And Pencil Quotes

“They put an eraser on a pencil for a reason.”

— Judy Sheindlin

“The autopilot is a hands-free piece of electronic wizardry. It's not some brutal application of electricity like one of the Pubyok's car batteries ... Think of its probing as a conversation with the mind, imagine it in a dance with identity. Yes, picture a pencil and eraser engaged in a beautiful dance across the page. The pencil's tip bursts with expression - squiggles, figures, words - filling the page, as the eraser measures, takes note, follows in the pencil's footsteps, leaving only blankness in its wake. The pencil's next seizure of scribbles is perhaps more intense and desperate, but shorter lived, and the eraser follows again. They continue in lockstep this way, the self and the state, coming closer to one another until finally the pencil and the eraser are almost one, moving in sympathy, the line disappearing even as it's laid down, the words unwritten before the letters are formed, and finally there is only white.”

— Adam Johnson

“I recall the rasp of charcoal on newsprint, the chewing-gum stretch of a kneaded eraser, the precarious bite of a razor blade in a new pencil. The vibrancy of fresh watercolors squeezed from a tube. A new sketchbook, cracked open to flawless white. The way the smell of turpentine made me feel simultaneously sick and excited.”

— Kirsten Hubbard

“I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.”

— Linda Gray

“When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.”

— Susan Minot

“I saw the way my eyes looked then, saw them with the eyes I have now, and I heard my cry once more, the timbre of my voice, the extreme politeness of a girl of eight who shouts after a boy of eight to remind him not to forget his eraser and yet can't call him by his name, James, or Crawford, the way we do in school, and opts, consciously or unconsciously, for the diminutive Jimmy, which indicates fondness, a verbal fondness, a personal fondness, since only she, in that world-encompassing instant, calls him that, a name that somehow casts in a new light the fondness or solicitude implicit in the gesture of warning him he's forgotten something, don't forget your eraser, or your pencil, though in the end it's simply an expression, verbally poor or verbally rich, of happiness.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.”

— Maira Kalman

“Life is like a painting. Imagine it, hit and try drawing with the pencil of first steps, fill in the colors of happiness, correct the mistakes with eraser of love and forgiveness; thus, one dream project is accomplished. Create such masterpieces just like that.”

— Vikrmn

“To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins”

— Anonymous.

“I'm scared that the pencil sides might disappear, just as a drawing can be rubbed out by an eraser. Bengali will be taken away when my parents are no longer there. It's a language that they personify, that they embody. When they die, it will no longer be fundamental to my life.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.”

— Hyman Rickover

“The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.”

— Marty Neumeier

“My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser”

— George Watsky

“Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.”

— Chris Kilham

“A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does.”

— Marilyn Vos Savant

“As for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.”

— Dorothy Parker

“God ... has a pencil with an eraser on it and he has promised us that he will use it if we will repent and change our ways ... He has said that if we would forsake our evil and thoroughly make up our minds against it, then he would wash it out of his mind and just forget the whole thing. Of course, he expects that we will wash it out of our minds also.”

— Sterling W. Sill

“One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.”

— John Cage

“All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson