Pens Quotes - Page 17

• The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

  Shelby Lynne

  Believe, Guitar, Fire

  Interview by Allison Moorer, innocentwords.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Pen, wax and parchment govern the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  World

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• I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can come up with a creative activity that will help us out." I'm like, "Let's get out the pens! Draw a picture of how much you hate me!"

  Miranda July

  Girlfriend, Hate, Creative

  Interview with Eli Horowitz, www.believermag.com.

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• I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].

  Don Hertzfeldt

  Fun, Real, Drawing

  Source: www.notcoming.com

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• I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Phones, Years

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• I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

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• 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.

  Forest Whitaker

  Art, Writing, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Moving, Drawing, Let It Go

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• For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.

  Naomi Wolf

  Giving Up, Together, Video

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• Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Banking, Credit

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• Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

  Mel Brooks

  Heart, Gifted Writers, Mind

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• My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my lettered tunic. Along the edge of my tunic, both front and rear, are partitioned compartments which are hemmed up to serve as pockets. These hold all my possessions which consist of a comb, a folding toothbrush, a ball point pen, a map, some copies of my message and my mail.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Clothes, Blue, Long

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• Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

  George Bernard Shaw

  West, Rebecca, Handle

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• Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years of indiscretion, (so let me speak,) snatches the pen, and blots out nature's mark of separation, cancels her kind intention, destroys all mental individuality. The lettered world no longer consists of singulars: it is a medley, a mass; and a hundred books, at bottom, are but one.

  Edward Young

  Book, Years, Individuality

  Edward Young, John Doran (1854). “The complete works, poetry and prose, of ... Edward Young. Revised [by J. Nichols]. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by J. Doran”, p.561

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• In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.

  John Adams

  Inspiration, Iron, Numbers

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• I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

  Henry Rollins

  Fighting, People, Trying

  Source: oustedproductions.net

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• During freedom struggle, It were authors and artists who made the Nation stand with their pen, and now their pen can create an environment of renaissance when Independent India is on the path of Good Governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Struggle, Independent, Artist

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• I think flirting is great fun. It doesn't mean that anything's going to come of it but it's fun to be told that you're hot and that your tits look great. You all get your pens out.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Mean, Flirting

  "Neil Patrick Harris Interview, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas". Roundtable interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I was a pen pal with one guy, a long time ago. I think we only wrote to each other twice. We didn't really keep it up that long. But, I love it. I think it's really sweet and very creative and freeing, when you get to put a pen to paper, 'cause you don't really do it that much these days, with all this technology.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Sweet, Technology, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees," An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearth-side ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! yet, I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve, "Come; see the oxen kneel, In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know," I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.

  Thomas Hardy

  Lonely, Loneliness, Oxen

  Thomas Hardy (2009). “Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

  John Adams

  Party, Understanding, Tongue

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.432

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• Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

  Voltaire

  Men, Use, Speech

  "Le Chapon et la Poularde (1763)". Dialogue by Voltaire, Dialogue XIV, 1766.

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• In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing.

  Mary Garden

  Giving Up, Writing, Track

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• Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that you have such an object available. If you focus on this, you'll be able to be lifted many many times each day. Some common examples include: a pen, fork, cup, key, computers, clock, chair, stapler, and eyeglasses.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Eyeglasses

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• 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

  Two, Research, Enthusiasm

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