Pens Quotes - Page 22

• My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10.
  My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Rap, Hip Hop, Mind

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• Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Fun, Way Forward, Rejection

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• Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.

  Maurice Chevalier

  Song, Inspiration, Ambition

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• I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Book, Smell, Library

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• Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Men, Self

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• To meet the huge consumer demand for fish, the industry can no longer rely on hunting wild fish. Now we are doing to fish what was done to wild cows, sheep, goats, chickens, and ducks thousands of years ago: we are confining them in holding pens.

  Sharon Gannon

  Hunting, Sheep, Years

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sadness, Joy

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• Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Wine

  Mark Twain (1977). “Life as I Find it: Essays, Sketches, and Tales, the Majority of which are Now Published in Book Form for the First Time”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
  And many maiden gardens yet unset,
  With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
  Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
  So should the lines of life that life repair
  Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
  Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
  Can make you live your self in eyes of men.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Eye, Men

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southampton”, p.238

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• Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts.

  Anton Julius Carlson

  Dry, Mouths, Facts

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• You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

  Josephine Baker

  Powerful, School, Gun

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• One thing I ask you to do, you people who have
  the pen in your hand, allow God to use you so that you never write
  anything that will destroy, that will hurt, but always take the trouble
  to write something beautiful, to help the people to see better, to love
  better, to come closer... to each other.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Hurt, Writing

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• There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

  Pharrell Williams

  Mistake, Writing, Odds

  Twitter post from Jan 14, 2014

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• Men=earthbound creatures, living in communities, endowed with common sense, sensus communis, a community sense; not autonomous, needing each other’s company even for thinking (“freedom of the pen”)=first part of the Critique of Judgment: aesthetic judgment.

  Hannah

  Men, Thinking, Common Sense

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• I have everything I need. A square of sky, a piece of stone, a page, a pen, and memory raining down on me in sleeves.

  Harriet Doerr

  Memories, Rain, Squares

  Harriet Doerr (1996). “The Tiger in the Grass: Stories and Other Inventions”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.

  Polly Toynbee

  Islam, Body, Christianity

  "Behind the burka" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2001.

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• It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Morning, Dark, Imagination

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• To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Heart, Mind

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.15, Vintage

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• The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

  Stephen King

  Real, Lying, Reading

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Put down the pen someone else gave you.
  No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ink, Life Worth Living, Living On

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• In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

  Joanna Southcott

  Answers, Bears, Satan

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• 'I haven't used the veto pen very often since I've been in office,' Obama told NPR. 'Now, I suspect there are going to be some times where I've got to pull that pen out. And I'm going to defend gains that we've made in healthcare; I'm going to defend gains that we've made on the environment and clean air and clean water.'

  Byron York

  Npr, Air, Water

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• I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

  John Millington Synge

  Reading, Giving, Comeback

  Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.

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• The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Girl, Sex

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.69, Wild Jot Press

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• Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.

  Judith Wright

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Judith Wright (1971). “Collected poems, 1942-1970”, Angus & Robertson

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