Pens Quotes - Page 13

• So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Night

  "R.I.P. Mitch Hedberg", www.indiewire.com. March 31, 2005.

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• I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

  Clifton Webb

  Writing, Use, Quills

  "Fictional character: Waldo Lydecker". "Laura", 1944.

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• Designers take care of everything around us. Everything that is around us, this table, this chair, this lamp, this pen has been designed. All of these things, everything has been designed by somebody.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Lamps, Care, Tables

  Interview With Debbie Millman, designobserver.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.

  Harry Lloyd

  Book, Mean, Mind

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

  Todd Barry

  Writing, Needs, Erase

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• I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

  Kingsley Amis

  Animal, Looks, Behaviour

  Kingsley Amis, Zachary Leader (2000). “The letters of Kingsley Amis”, HarperCollins

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• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Virginia, America, Independence

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• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hens, Beaks

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• Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

  Booth Tarkington

  Men, Sheep, Shepherds

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• When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.

  Thom Yorke

  People, Ask Me, Autographs

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• The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Ignorant, Cameras, Use

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• The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Men, Lines

  "The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Historic Americans".

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• I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Heart, Jerusalem, Virtue

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• I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying.

  Petrarch

  Writing, Thinking, Dying

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• I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him.

  Keith Green

  Writing, Hands, People

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• The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love.

  Ann Voskamp

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

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• When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

  Chenjerai Hove

  Writing, Silence, Silent

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• New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happy, New Year, Dream

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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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• Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Moving, Self, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “Lives”, p.531

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• We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.

  Seneca the Younger

  Reading, Writing, Advice

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• God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Lying, Dust

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• This pen is my only outlet, my only voice, because I have no one else to speak to, no mind but my own to drown in and all the lifeboats are taken and all the life preservers are broken and I don't know how to swim I can't swim I can't swim and it's getting so hard. It's getting so hard. It's like there are a million screams caught inside of my chest but I have to keep them all in because what's the point of screaming if you'll never be heard and no one will ever hear me in here. No one will ever hear me again.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Taken, Voice, Broken

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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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