Top 1134 Pen Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

I swear I have at least one good song idea a day. But if I don't get pen to paper in ten seconds, it's gone forever.

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

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.

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.

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.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.

The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.

With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

Pen in Barack Obama hands is far more dangerous than any other president, at least in modern history, if not ever.

Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.

To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place

When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.

I always have a Sharpie, because usually when someone asks me for an autograph, they don't have a pen. I carry one in my purse, as well as in my tennis bag.

I've been writing since I was 11. But I don't write with a pen, I just sing at the piano with one eye shut like a pirate.

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.

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.

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

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

Most people who talk about either entitlement cuts or revenue - when you have to put pen to paper, it is much more difficult.

Maybe there's something new that can document an idea quicker, but pen and paper have always been pretty handy for me.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

A sudden cloud formation of birds was swallowed up by the moon, and he was just as suddenly penned in by four walls-the demons' pen.

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

if have got my spindle and my distaff ready--my pen and mind--never doubting for an instant that God will send me flax.

A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

All the birds love Touche Eclat. It's a (concealer) pen that gets rid of eye bags. But I'm quite happy otherwise. I train a lot.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.

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.

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.

We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92)

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right.

Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.

A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.