Top 171 Ballpoint Pens Quotes & Sayings

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens

I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint slips on veal cutlets.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase

Pens?" Chase echoed. Bridget rolled her eyes. "Pens are by far more stimulating than most people." "I'm kind of wondering what you're going with those pens," Chase said Madison scrunched up her nose. "Get your mind out of the gutter." "My mind is always in the gutter around you.

Teachers should not need to have to buy books for the kids, or pencils and pens. That's absurd.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.

I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. "You don't see the sword," I told the girl. "It's just a ballpoint pen." She blinked. "Um . . . no. It's a sword, weirdo.

You know, I have dropped three expensive pens on the nib. And it just makes you cry when it happens.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.

Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

The French elites' strategy of trying to defeat the Le Pens by aping their rhetoric, stealing their policies, and pandering to their voters has been a political and moral failure.

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

I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens.

The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They’re operated as holding pens—miniature jails, really. It’s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.

I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.

When Reg died and we first looked into getting a new dog, I was adamant we should pick up a mongrel from an animal-rescue shelter. It's not only that they're usually healthier and have better temperaments, they also fit with my world view - I prefer a ballpoint to a fountain pen, a barber to a hair stylist, and camping over glamping.

My first job was cleaning sheep pens.

I lose pens a lot, so I don't use fancy ones.

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

I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted.

I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don’t want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.

I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all.

My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.

My bag hit the floor, spilling overpriced books and pens across the shiny floor. My pens! My glorious pens rolled everywhere.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

I write in pen because it works. A fountain pen is no good for writing in the way I do because I'd have to decide, each time I stopped, how long I was likely to stop for in order to know whether or not to put the cap on. But I never know. So instead, I use a ballpoint - a Montblanc, to be precise - the most comfortably balanced pen I've ever found.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

Twiddle-twiddle away at my softly clicky keyboard for a while, making twiddly adjustments all along- and then print what I have twiddled. Glare at the printout and snarl and curse and scribble almost illegibly all over it with a ballpoint pen. Go back to the machine and enter the scribbles. Repeat this procedure until I hate the very meaning of every word I know.