Pens'll Quotes

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

There are the boys for whom the ink of a million glittery gel pens was spilled. — Katie Heaney

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

Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens — Andy Biersack

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

When I take up my pen, nothing can happen to me. Fate, remember that. — Karl Kraus

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

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase. — Todd Barry

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

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all. — Robert Crumb

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

I thought I would run out of paper. It was the pens that ran out. — Yann Martel

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

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
With pens of adamant on plates of brass. — John Dryden

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools. — Malala Yousafzai

They scribble on notepads,
the sound of their pens
scratching the judgemental air. — Emma Cameron

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

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen. — Thomas Browne

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

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

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again. — Johnny Depp

ballpoint pens guaranteed right on them to write a lifetime on butter under water, — Anonymous

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fill'd with death, ya pens'll hang ya. — Ron A Swan

I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating. — Erykah Badu

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is. — Malala Yousafzai

My hand and pen are not in plight,
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

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms. — Graham Parker

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

The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers — Nadifa Mohamed

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

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild. — Willie Nelson

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

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. — Alan Perlis

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

I've put down my scrivener's pen. These days i prefer not to. — Mike Noonan

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. — Anne Fadiman