I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's something about working in adverse conditions. It keeps it interesting. I always notice if I ever sit down with a pen… — Brendan Benson Copy Share Image
I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. “Narcissus is a loser! He’s so weak, he… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the… — Billy Idol Copy Share Image
“These pens are unusually thick and heavy. You know, phallic imagery and all that. The bigger the, um, pen, the bigger the…… — Nick Stephenson Copy Share Image
Niggers are killing niggers, and penitentiaries are full of niggers and Mexicans. Why don't y'all give us some money to help us… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
She was sitting cross-legged on her bed in her white kimono, writing in a notebook with an ink pen she dipped in… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I was taking all prints and I brought them to the Magnum meetings, trying the old Josef Koudelka trick: Give them to… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Sit down and write it down with a pen and then make up your mind you are going to do it. Don't… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We realize the importance of light when we see darkness. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. In… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by the music, always have been, always will be, it's only what a track or instrumental interpretation from a producer… — Truth Hurts Copy Share Image
When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Reparations,” said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding. Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game?… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may… — Louise Fresco Copy Share Image
When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
Slowly I would get to pen and paper, Make my poems for others unseen and unborn. In the day I would be… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No,… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
