Pens Quotes - Page 5

• Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

  Nicholson Baker

  Dry, Restaurants

  Nicholson Baker (1990). “The Mezzanine: A Novel”, Vintage

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• When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Talent, Particular

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• Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Drawing, Style

  "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that the United States is doing it too. It enormously weakens the argument. Back in the early days of the Bush administration, PEN made a decision that we would try and make human rights issues and civil rights issues in this country part of the priority, and not just international issues, which had more or less been the priority up until then.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, People, Priorities

  Source: pen.org

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• Anyone who thinks the pen is mightier than the sword has not been stabbed with both.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking

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• I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

  Bill Kaulitz

  Life, Change, Regret

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• Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Firsts, Being The Best, First Time

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

  Voltaire

  Risk, Freedom Of Speech, Hazards

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.103, Penguin

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• No one has invented a condom for the pen yet. My pen is still sexy.

  Khushwant Singh

  Sexy, Condom, Stills

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• My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.

  Judah Halevi

  Garden, Library, Harps

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• Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.

  Paul Begala

  Law, Land, President

  The New York Times, July 5, 1998.

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• We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

  Grover Norquist

  Thinking, Needs, Enough

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• No way. I'm not going in there. I draw the line at grave-robbing, Barrons. It's not your pen.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Lines, Way, Robbing

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.48, Delacorte Press

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• I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

  Jacques Derrida

  Dream, Communication, Would Be

  Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida (1999). “Jacques Derrida”, p.20, University of Chicago Press

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• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, Museums

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 11, 2013

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• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Flow, Building, Picks

  "I pick up my pen. A building appears". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2007.

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• Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an inspired voice or pen, to bear fruit of a divine flavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Lying, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.8, Yale University Press

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• When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

  Joseph Haydn

  Heart, Thinking, Joy

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• The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Might, Saddest, Knows

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• We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.

  Max Lucado

  Glimpse, Paper, Soil

  Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
  Leave in its track the toiling plough;
  The rifle and the bayonet-blade
  For arms like yours were fitter now;
  And let the hands that ply the pen
  Quit the light task, and learn to wield
  The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
  The charger on the battle-field.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Light, Hands

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• Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Able, Showers, Picks

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• The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Way, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper…I…I…I…I…I…I.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Two, Special

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.34, Anchor

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• There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.

  Michael Anti

  Real, Names, Long

  "There’s No Need for the Chinese to Censor If Facebook Does It for Them" by Robert Giles, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2011.

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