Pens Quotes - Page 21

• Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet Russia, Cuba, or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation chooses to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of respect for the nonexistent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self-sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and if it so chooses.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Russia, Rights

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• The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

  Roberto Rossellini

  Cameras, Imbeciles, Ballpoint Pens

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• For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad.

  Lemon Andersen

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

  Lake Bell

  Writing, Acting, Lucky

  "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

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• Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Party, Holocaust

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• If you look at the funding of far-right parties in Europe - where's the money coming? We do know that 9 million euros was given by Russia, through a Czech bank, to [French National Front leader] Marine Le Pen. We know that this is not an isolated case. This is happening elsewhere.

  Toomas Hendrik Ilves

  Party, Marine, Europe

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

  Philip Schaff

  Book, Law, Religion

  Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• I love it when people ask if Jennifer Weiner is a pen name. Um, if I wanted a pen name I could have done a LOT better than this!

  Jennifer Weiner

  Names, People, Done

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Heart, Stories, Paper

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.

  Hannah Hart

  Video, Paper, Audio

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Even if you're just making a list of all the things you have to do, putting your pen to paper gets it out of your head. It puts you in this place of release.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Paper, Lists, Release

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• The story goes that every Jedi constructs his own lightsaber, and every penmonkey constructs his own pen. Meaning, we all find our own way through this crazy tangle of possibility. This isn't an art, a craft, a career, or an obsession that comes with easy answers and isn't given over to bullshit dichotomies. We do what we do in the way we do it and hope it's right. Read advice. Weigh it in your hand and determine its value. But at the end of the day - and at the start of it - what you should be doing is writing. Because thinking about writing and talking about writing just plain isn't writing.

  Chuck Wendig

  Art, Crazy, Writing

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• Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence (pen, computer, whatever), and a place in which to do it (office, kitchen table, lunar brothel).

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Office, Kitchen

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• For poetry, he's past his prime,
  He takes an hour to find a rhyme;
  His fire is out, his wit decayed,
  His fancy sunk, his muse a jade.
  I'd have him throw away his pen,
  But there's no talking to some men.

  Jonathan Swift

  Past, Men, Fire

  Matthew Prior, Jonathan Swift (1853). “Select poems of Prior and Swift [ed. by C. Bathurst].”, p.155

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• Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

  Camille Flammarion

  Discovery, Sky, Leaving

  Camille Flammarion (1914). “Astronomy”

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• In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

  Alfred de Musset

  Paper, Letters, Matter

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

  Erykah Badu

  Self, Creating, Decision

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• 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

  Nice, Mean, Flow

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• A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Blow, Torches, Use

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• Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

  Rumi

  Writing, Thinking, Balls

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• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Historical, Independence

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

  Walt Whitman

  Real, Sleep, Historical

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.393, NYU Press

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• I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse:
  Not only do they say they feel it, but they say it hurts.

  Pusha T

  Hurt, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Niggas' rap albums sound like love letters,
  Pen in my hand, like: damn, fam, I could do much better.

  Sean Price

  Rap, Hands, Like Love

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• Lyrical lecture, word architecture,
  Rap director, the best in my sector.
  Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech...
  I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Hip Hop, Directors

  Song: Baby, You Nasty

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