The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians bureaucrats policemen and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.

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

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it but is in it.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil which I have forsaken in my great discouragement and I will go on with my drawing.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

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

Ideas are elusive slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.