Pens Quotes

616 Pens quotes by 492 unique authors

Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to… — Robert A. Heinlein
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know… — Radclyffe Hall
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. — Dmitri Shostakovich
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,… — Dorothea Dix
My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain — Jay Electronica
Raptors are smart. Very smart. Believe me, all the problems we have so far are nothing compared with what we'd have if the raptors ever… — Robert Muldoon
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is… — Charles Spurgeon
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves… — Douglas Preston
My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes… — Alexander Wang
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. — Harriet Ann Jacobs
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three… — Jayne Ann Krentz
To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things, — Anne Bradstreet
I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen? — Frankie Boyle
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday, — Nelson DeMille
As readers can probably tell from my books, I love the outdoors. I love to hike, kayak, and swim. I also love to read (which… — Sharon Creech
I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter. — Mary Lou Retton
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human being can spend… — John Gibson Paton
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex, we’re not the… — Gary Lightbody
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms. — Graham Parker
Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains… — Winston Smith
We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements… — Aruna Roy

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