Humour Quote by Jed Mercurio

“NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.”

— Will Chabot

“When NASA started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ballpoint pens don’t work in zero gravity. So they spent twelve million dollars and more…

— Garrison Keillor

“In the early days of space travel, one interesting problem emerged from experiments with weightlessness. Americans found that ... normal ink pen would not…

— Marina Lewycka

“When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain…

— John Varley

“One evening I was walking along Hollywood Boulevard, nothing much to do. I stopped and looked in the window of a stationary shop. A…

— John Cage

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— Anonymous

“The world is a pencil -- not a pen.”

— Todd Boss

“During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ballpoint pen to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A page lay on his desk. His fingers held a pen. With these tools he built a world. Perhaps the world he built lived…

— Max Gladstone

“I could write from anywhere, including the moon, provided I had a pencil and not a pen.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Forget ideas, Mr. Author. What kind of pen do you use?”

— Stephen Fry

“Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.”

— Shaun Hick