Pens Quotes
616 Pens quotes by 492 unique authors
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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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The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.
— Malala Yousafzai
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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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The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became…
— Whitley Strieber
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It is understandable how some people could give way to this kind of pervasive pessimism, but we speak of a gospel which brings good tidings…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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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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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
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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…
— Unknown Author
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The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much savvier…
— Lucy Corin
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Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.
— Jonah Lehrer
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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
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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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Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what…
— Unknown Author
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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,
— Michael Ondaatje
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I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on…
— Graham Swift
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I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
— Erykah Badu
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Inside me, I think that an animal goes through a lot of pain in the whole cycle of death in the slaughterhouse; just living to…
— Zack de la Rocha
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If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God…
— Kabir
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Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others rob you with a fountain pen.
— Woody Guthrie
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You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real…
— Bill Gates
Who Wrote These Pens Quotes
492 authors contributed a total of 616 Pens Quotes, led by these top contributors: