Pens Quotes
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Pens Quotes & Sayings
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We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
— Voltaire
When you're looking for a sketchbook, you've got to find the right paper for the pens you like to use. I like to draw on both sides of the page.
— Jeffrey Brown
Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
— Nicholson Baker
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.
— Mitch Albom
I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Your task, in these dreams, is often to pens.
— Thomas Pynchon
Vintage fountain pens have provenance that makes a traditionalist go weak at the knuckles.
— Fennel Hudson
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
— Malala Yousafzai
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?
— Sir John Davies
Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens.
— Sophie Kinsella
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
— Carl Reiner
All I'm about is just the pen.
— Pusha T
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
— Bayard Taylor
I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.
— Chuck D
I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.
— Malala Yousafzai
I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
— Spalding Gray
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.
— Juana Ines De La Cruz
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
— Henry Fielding
Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.
— Alex Ebert
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
— Aristide Briand
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn't stop our minds from thinking.
— Malala Yousafzai
But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as soon as we can.
— Virginia Woolf
Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine's Day.
— Fennel Hudson
Some writers dug their graves with their own pens
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
The pen has shaken nations.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
They should change "like finding a needle in a haystack" to "like finding a pen that works in that drawer filled with pens that don't work.
— Jenny Lawson
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
— Baltasar Gracian
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
— Alan King
I hear better with a pen in my hand.
— Alan Judd
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.
— James Branch Cabell
I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.
— Alain De Botton
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.
— Alexandra Stoddard
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
— John Clayton
The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.
— Roberto Rossellini
My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
— Eva Green
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.
— Danny Gregory
If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'
— Bret Harte
My first job was cleaning sheep pens.
— Brian Sandoval
People represented in book or film travel vast oceans of life unrecorded; studeo time costs money, and pens grow heavy.
— Adrian Lamo
There is more done with pens than with swords.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.
— Malala Yousafzai
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.
— Tamera Alexander
Actions are destiny's pen.
— Grenville Kleiser
No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
The mason stirs.
Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write. — Basil Bunting
Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write. — Basil Bunting
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
— Samuel Rutherford
Read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
— Malala Yousafzai
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
— Erykah Badu
My hand and pen are not in plight,
As they have been of yore. — Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden
As they have been of yore. — Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux Of Harrowden
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
— James Robertson
History belongs to she who holds the pen ... If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.
— Julianne Malveaux
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
— George Washington
Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.
— Anton Julius Carlson
Oh, thank God. It wasn't the pens talk.
— Courtney Milan
They dip their pens in our hearts and think they are inspired.
— Kahlil Gibran
The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.
— Pope Pius IX
We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.
— Vincent Louis Carrella
All your doing is keeping wayward teenage punks off the street. You should leave the real investigative work to us big girls with the pens and paper.
— Diane Moore
Life in the pen ain't for me 'cos I'd rather die.
— Tupac Shakur
I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.
— Steve Breen
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
— Mitch Hedberg
Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.
— Benjamin Franklin
Don't go back over your life with a red pen.
— Gary Gulman
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
— Toni Morrison
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
— Jane Austen
My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.
— Sly Stone
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
— Charles Dickens
No one has invented a condom for the pen yet
— Khushwant Singh
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
— Peter Greenaway
My bag hit the floor, spilling overpriced books and pens across the shiny floor. My pens! My glorious pens rolled everywhere.
— J. Lynn
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.
— Mark Twain
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.
— Anne Fadiman