Pens Quotes · Page 20

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

— Aravind Adiga

Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a…

— Rick Perry

Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

— Anton Julius Carlson

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

— Horace Walpole

I remember reading about a court case where a man tried to stab a judge with a pencil. There are Google pages…

— Don Ihde

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

— Marcus Garvey

Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story…

— Chuck Wendig

...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to…

— Elizabeth Goudge

Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush,…

— Jim Rohn

Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

— Jason Ellis

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

— Jasper Fforde

I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. "You don't see the sword," I told the girl. "It's just a ballpoint pen." She…

— Rick Riordan

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them…

— Mark Twain

If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen…

— Kaye Dacus

I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from…

— Susan Griffin

I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.

— Erykah Badu

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

— David Mitchell

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

— Vladimir Nabokov

I am a highly disciplined person. I get up at seven every morning and, still in my pajamas, sit down at my…

— Orhan Pamuk

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on…

— Chelsea Martin

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only…

— Virginia Woolf

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

— George Henry Lewes

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

— Malala Yousafzai

There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities.…

— Michael Anti