We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade...… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me. — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
That's very cool. Absolutely! You want to know where this guy came from, but you also want to know about the relationship… — Michael Rooker Copy Share Image
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
How d’you spell ‘belligerent’?” said Ron, shaking his quill very hard while staring at his parchment. “It can’t be B — U… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor,… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex,… — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
