Pens Quotes

616 Pens quotes by 492 unique authors

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. — Pope Pius IX
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen. — Edmond Jabes
A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. — Orson Welles
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power. — Matthew Arnold
The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been. — John Greenleaf Whittier
I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I… — David
Pens carry further than rifled cannon. — Bayard Taylor
When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit… — Nhat Hanh
You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories. — Jon Jones
The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten. — Bob Dylan
Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All… — Dorothy Parker
I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if… — Nicola Formichetti
I know I draw without taking my pen off the page. I just keep going, and that my drawings I think of them as scribbles.… — Frank Gehry
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT… — Craig A. Evans
It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself,… — Charles de Lint
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… — Charles de Lint
A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen. — William Soutar
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a… — Romain Gary
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all… — William C. Bryant
The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood,… — John Dryden
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds,… — Max Lucado
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books,… — William Allingham
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through… — Henry Timrod
I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out… — Dan Povenmire
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in… — Edward Gibbon

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