Pen Quotes
753 Pen quotes by 581 unique authors
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I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole…
— Winston Churchill
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Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and…
— Albert Einstein
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The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen.
— Russell Brand
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I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen…
— Shelby Foote
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I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink…
— Joseph Fiennes
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Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left,…
— Maurice Chevalier
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Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen…
— Pete Seeger
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So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have…
— Mitch Hedberg
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I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
— Clifton Webb
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Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of…
— Massimo Vignelli
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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
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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
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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
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.
— Thom Yorke
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The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.
— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
— Samuel Rutherford
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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
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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
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