177 Pen Quotes for You to Enjoy

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India. Damon Galgut

Work Buy Pen India Bound Hand Notebooks Fountain Fountain Pen

Sheep may not be brilliant, but they know that sheep in pen is stage number one of lamb chops. Donald McCaig

Brilliant Sheep Stage Pen Know May Lamb Chops Number

A writer without a pen would be like a duck without water! Donovan

Water Pen Would Would-Be Writer Like Like A Duck Without Duck

I was getting bored and, I think, being a real pest. I remember Brando coming and sitting on the bed and cutting out the most exquisite paper fish, with detailed scales and fins. Then he took a hotel pen and a piece of string and made a fishing pole. Edward Albert

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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Great Men Beneath Rule Pen Entirely Than Mightier Sword

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. Edward Gibbon

After I was cast, I decided to read 'Sharp Objects'. I ended up drowning it in sticky notes, highlighter and pen. It became my little diary I could refer to. I took little quotes out of the book and transferred them onto this scrapbook I kept about Amma. Eliza Scanlen

Book Took Pen Out About Objects Cast Could Onto Sharp Drowning Read Became Sticky Refer Diary Up Ended After Transferred Decided Quotes Little Them Notes Kept

There are two projects facing each other. There's Marine Le Pen's project of a fractured, closed France. On the other hand, you have my project which is a republican, patriotic project aiming at... reconciling France. Emmanuel Macron

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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. Erica Jong

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When I'm interviewing somebody, I take notes with a Bic Cristal, the classic black-cap, clear-body, medium-weight pen. It works on many levels: You can chew the cap, and if you're really bored, you can bite the end off the back. Erik Larson

You Somebody Back Interviewing Pen Bite Bored Classic Take Chew Off End Cap Notes Really Many Many Levels Works Levels

Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money. Forest Whitaker

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Why would you not have a robot that looks like Abraham Lincoln? Why would it look like an erector set? Why use a computer with a punchcard, when you could use one with a touch pen on the screen? Why a car, when you could use a jetpack? George M. Church

You Car Robot Pen Would Touch Abraham Abraham Lincoln Could Computer Like Look Looks Lincoln Screen Use Why Set

When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done. Gisele Bundchen

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What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs. Glen Hansard

Become Think Pen Pick Up Just Happens Us

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up. Glen Hansard

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Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. Grace Darling

Illustrations Pen Pencil Exaggerated Inflated Descriptions

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. 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 to the page. Graham Swift

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Presidents are evaluated not by what they did by the stroke of their own pen; it's what they persuade Congress to do. H. W. Brands

Own Congress Pen Presidents Stroke Did Persuade

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. Helen Reddy

Conversation Live Bathroom Paper Pen Had Come Sort Without Been Hand Up Anybody Children Fan Public Stall Serious Thing

Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen. Henry Vaughan

World Men Pen Had Caesar Perished Been His Rescued Sword

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. Immanuel Velikovsky

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. Jack Prelutsky

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For some reason, some of my best solutions and ideas are triggered in those dark theaters, usually totally unrelated to what's going on onscreen. I also enjoy hiking in the foothills and mountains close to Sacramento. I always have to bring a pen and paper to jot down sudden thoughts and ideas. So inspiration arises from countless sources. James Rollins

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