Pens Quotes

616 Pens quotes by 492 unique authors

Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question… — Tim Parks
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The… — Marya Mannes
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. — George D. Prentice
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. — Thomas Carlyle
Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question… — Thomas Carlyle
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render… — Washington Irving
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter… — Robert Breault
It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the… — Lydia M. Child
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. — Alan Perlis
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city, it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery, it's a pen that scratches. — Robert Orben
Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when - — Arthur Guiterman
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his… — Murray Kempton
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that… — Natalie Goldberg
But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want… — Alan Bennett
The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand,… — Walter Murch
I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. — Oscar Niemeyer
The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile… — Steve Rubel
I love writing in longhand. Writing in longhand, I think, is a marvelous thing to do for a writer these days. If you have a… — Neil Gaiman
I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote… — Jake Owen
I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen… — Daniela Pestova
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had… — Helen Reddy
For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I… — James Rollins
My first job was cleaning sheep pens. — Brian Sandoval

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