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Regaining my health means seeing myself in the mirror again, seeing the hair grow, not having to draw eyebrows on with a pencil, it can appear strange in this moment (of the pandemic), compared to many others I feel very fortunate. – Darren Walsh/Action Images/Reuters Vialli	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It broke our heart to see him struggling on Zoom every day, he had to unmute when he wanted to speak, and mute when he wasn't speaking. He had to learn how to write online. How do you learn how to hold a pencil online ? – Dharini Mathur	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The streams percolate out of the Milky Way's dense gas disk, the jet diverges from a pencil beam into tendrils, like that of an octopus. – Alex Wagner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. – Mother Teresa	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
The ink of any pen has no control of its writing. If you are using a pencil, don’t use the eraser. It is not made for writing. – CLIFFORD VILLALON	added by anonymous 3 years ago
I probably sell about one 7700 red pencil for every 3,000 regular red colour pencils. – Naoya Nagatsuma	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The man who invented cats’ eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener. – Ken Dodd	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
In distance running in particular, fitness is like a pencil, you sharpen yourself to a point for the race, called peaking, and it's something you time very carefully with the coach. – Alexi Pappas	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I don’t play video games that much, but journaling, that’s one of my hobbies, I get a pencil, I sit down, and then I start journaling.” – Naad-Dre Amos	added by naaddre_a 3 years ago
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B? – Spike Milligan	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
It's hard to pencil in a recession anytime soon, the Joe Quinlan consumer is at the core of the economy -- and that core is pretty rock solid right now. – Joe Quinlan	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Having support for the Pencil is great, but I’m not sure that will help drive additional sales in the consumer segment. – Jitesh Ubrani	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It’s easier to give a child an iPad than encouraging them to do muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting and sticking, or pulling toys and ropes, she noted. Because of this, they’re not developing the underlying foundation skills they need to grip and hold a pencil. – The Guardian	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We have all the things to produce a pencil, which is used by a large number of people from our young pupils to engineers, the private sector will come in to do the production and we will see the benefits. When production of pencils begins, Nigerians will be amazed at the multiplier effects. It will create a minimum of 400,000 jobs. – Ogbonnaya Onu	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I was bullied, and they called me all kinds of names. One time I got stabbed with a pencil. – Egypt Ufele	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Well. You can start painting now. Just get a piece of paper and a pencil. And drive the pencil like you were dancing – Eddy M Reyes	added by eddyreyes 8 years ago
Leave it to Apple to poke fun at styluses for years and then go create the new stylus gold standard, the $100 Apple Pencil enables the best digital writing and sketching experience I’ve ever had on a tablet. – The Apple Pencil	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
A lot of our customers are people who happen to be walking by, and they come in a little surprised and amused by a shop that just sells pencils, but we also get a lot of word-of-mouth business from journalists, designers, architects and kids coming in after school. I love seeing kids get excited about pencils. Adults remember the smell, the tactile sensation of writing with a freshly sharpened pencil. – Caroline Weaver	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's quite cool to be able to pick something to draw or paint and know that I can recreate it, with a pencil I can add a lot of detail and with paint I can bring a picture to life. – Chris Hoy	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think in general the industry is putting a sharper pencil to cost cutting, i think they are realizing the days of $100 a barrel (oil) are over. – Brian Youngberg	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think in general the industry is putting a sharper pencil to cost cutting, i think they are realizing the days of $ 100 a barrel( oil) are over. – Brian Youngberg	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For the Israelis to do this would be a real military risk, on paper, you could pencil it out, but there can be no room for error. – Rick Francona	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We did a much stronger brow and a bold lip for a French sort of feel. The way I shaded her eyebrows with the pencil, I created an uplifting effect. Then, I finished with a shimmering, silky-beige shadow on her lids, and went with no mascara at all. Sort of a reaction against all the fake lashes we've been seeing on the red carpet. i've been doing this for years and years and years -- people say things nice and they say things mean and it's like whatever. – Uma Thurman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The French satirical tradition has always been very pointed and very harsh, and still is, you know, the thing that I really resent is the way in which these, our dead comrades ... who died using the same implement that I use, which is a pen or pencil, have been almost immediately vilified and called racists and I don't know what else. – Salman Rushdie	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

Regaining my health means seeing myself in the mirror again, seeing the hair grow, not having to draw eyebrows on with a pencil, it can appear strange in this moment (of the pandemic), compared to many others I feel very fortunate.

– Darren Walsh/Action Images/Reuters Vialli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It broke our heart to see him struggling on Zoom every day, he had to unmute when he wanted to speak, and mute when he wasn't speaking. He had to learn how to write online. How do you learn how to hold a pencil online ?

– Dharini Mathur

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The streams percolate out of the Milky Way's dense gas disk, the jet diverges from a pencil beam into tendrils, like that of an octopus.

– Alex Wagner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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

– Mother Teresa

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

The ink of any pen has no control of its writing. If you are using a pencil, don’t use the eraser. It is not made for writing.

– CLIFFORD VILLALON

added by anonymous
3 years ago

I probably sell about one 7700 red pencil for every 3,000 regular red colour pencils.

– Naoya Nagatsuma

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The man who invented cats’ eyes got the idea when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights. If the cat had been going the other way, he would have invented the pencil sharpener.

– Ken Dodd

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

In distance running in particular, fitness is like a pencil, you sharpen yourself to a point for the race, called peaking, and it's something you time very carefully with the coach.

– Alexi Pappas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I don’t play video games that much, but journaling, that’s one of my hobbies, I get a pencil, I sit down, and then I start journaling.”

– Naad-Dre Amos

added by naaddre_a
3 years ago

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?

– Spike Milligan

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

It's hard to pencil in a recession anytime soon, the Joe Quinlan consumer is at the core of the economy -- and that core is pretty rock solid right now.

– Joe Quinlan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Having support for the Pencil is great, but I’m not sure that will help drive additional sales in the consumer segment.

– Jitesh Ubrani

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It’s easier to give a child an iPad than encouraging them to do muscle-building play such as building blocks, cutting and sticking, or pulling toys and ropes, she noted. Because of this, they’re not developing the underlying foundation skills they need to grip and hold a pencil.

– The Guardian

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We have all the things to produce a pencil, which is used by a large number of people from our young pupils to engineers, the private sector will come in to do the production and we will see the benefits. When production of pencils begins, Nigerians will be amazed at the multiplier effects. It will create a minimum of 400,000 jobs.

– Ogbonnaya Onu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was bullied, and they called me all kinds of names. One time I got stabbed with a pencil.

– Egypt Ufele

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Well. You can start painting now. Just get a piece of paper and a pencil. And drive the pencil like you were dancing

– Eddy M Reyes

added by eddyreyes
8 years ago

Leave it to Apple to poke fun at styluses for years and then go create the new stylus gold standard, the $100 Apple Pencil enables the best digital writing and sketching experience I’ve ever had on a tablet.

– The Apple Pencil

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

A lot of our customers are people who happen to be walking by, and they come in a little surprised and amused by a shop that just sells pencils, but we also get a lot of word-of-mouth business from journalists, designers, architects and kids coming in after school. I love seeing kids get excited about pencils. Adults remember the smell, the tactile sensation of writing with a freshly sharpened pencil.

– Caroline Weaver

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's quite cool to be able to pick something to draw or paint and know that I can recreate it, with a pencil I can add a lot of detail and with paint I can bring a picture to life.

– Chris Hoy

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think in general the industry is putting a sharper pencil to cost cutting, i think they are realizing the days of $100 a barrel (oil) are over.

– Brian Youngberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think in general the industry is putting a sharper pencil to cost cutting, i think they are realizing the days of $ 100 a barrel( oil) are over.

– Brian Youngberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For the Israelis to do this would be a real military risk, on paper, you could pencil it out, but there can be no room for error.

– Rick Francona

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We did a much stronger brow and a bold lip for a French sort of feel. The way I shaded her eyebrows with the pencil, I created an uplifting effect. Then, I finished with a shimmering, silky-beige shadow on her lids, and went with no mascara at all. Sort of a reaction against all the fake lashes we've been seeing on the red carpet. i've been doing this for years and years and years -- people say things nice and they say things mean and it's like whatever.

– Uma Thurman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The French satirical tradition has always been very pointed and very harsh, and still is, you know, the thing that I really resent is the way in which these, our dead comrades ... who died using the same implement that I use, which is a pen or pencil, have been almost immediately vilified and called racists and I don't know what else.

– Salman Rushdie

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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