Pen Quotes

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Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain… — Harry Lloyd
I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen. — Kingsley Amis
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson,… — Mercy Otis Warren
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field. — Booth Tarkington
When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it. — Thom Yorke
The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and… — David Brock
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin had no religion… — Theodore Parker
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with… — Petrarch
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief. — John Fante
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus. — Samuel Rutherford
Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I… — Jorge Luis Borges
We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it… — David Warlick
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body… — Ketch Secor
In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive....Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of… — Keith Bradsher
Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. — Jonah Lehrer
I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many… — Walt Whitman
Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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