Pencil Eraser Quotes & Sayings

As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We'd known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We'd connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation. — Ernest Cline

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. — Golda Meir

I can eraser you out just as easily as I can pencil you in. — Brenda Lee Compton

She blew out a sigh and focused her attention on the students in her class taking a test. There was nothing like a teenage boy cleaning his ears with the eraser of his pencil to squelch sexual desire. — Robin Alexander

They put an eraser on a pencil for a reason. — Judy Sheindlin

The truth is: I did want to be my dad's poem. I wanted to be his drawing, his novella, his most refined work of art. I wanted him to shape me with his love and intelligence. I wanted him to edit out my mistakes and many indulgences, with a sharp red pencil or a clean eraser. — Alysia Abbott

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. — Sumner Redstone

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours. — Dillon Burroughs

I did not come to NASA to make history. — Sally Ride

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music. — Brian Wilson

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 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 Bolano

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

He is the best passer of a ball in the world, and Real's style fits him.
(on David Beckham) — Ryan Giggs

People stay in relationships for all kinds of reasons that have nothing to do with love - including not believing they deserve better. — Jessica Hawkins

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

My heart is a colored pencil but my brain is an eraser — George Watsky

Learn to write your hurts with pencil so as you can erase it off with Eraser of Forgiveness and write your benefits with Pen so as it remain safe with you forever. — Pravin Agarwal

The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end. — Marty Neumeier

Like creativity, collaboration is a habit - and one I encourage you to develop. — Twyla Tharp

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

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns. — Juan Williams

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

Dream large, stand tall, and open your mind, for you are the conduit for a story that is yet to be told. — David Powers King

We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser. — Chris Grabenstein

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

To stay relevant, you must keep your career in permanent beta. That means committing to a lifetime of learning and professional growth, a lifetime of strategic — Jay Samit

Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. — Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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

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

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

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

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

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

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it. — Lyndon B. Johnson

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

From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside. — Hanya Yanagihara

A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does. — Marilyn Vos Savant