Pens Quotes - Page 16

• I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Giving, Mind, Paper

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• As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human being can spend or be spent; and that, if God gave me back my life to be lived over again, I would without one quiver of hesitation lay it on the altar to Christ, that He might use it as before in similar ministries of love, especially amongst those who have never yet heard the Name of Jesus.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Son, Might Use

  "John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides".

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• I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Book, Taken

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• I think I write honestly about what goes on in a guy’s mind, and girls are interested in that. As a sex, we’re not the best communicators when it comes to talking to the women in our lives. I know I’m not – but I’m much better when I have a pen and paper in my hand.

  Gary Lightbody

  Girl, Sex, Writing

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• So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is bound to recite, that may the poet, if he list, with his imitation make his own, beautifying it both for further teaching and more delighting, as it pleaseth him; having all, from Dante’s Heaven to his Hell, under the authority of his pen.

  Philip Sidney

  War, Teaching, Heaven

  Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Babington Macaulay (2010). “English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.

  Winston Smith

  Essentials, Doe, Paper

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• We call people who work with mud and earth, and sand and stone, unskilled labor in India. I cannot in this lifetime wield the implements that they use either to dig the earth or to shovel the earth. I can't carry the loads. That's extremely specialized. But they are called unskilled, and I am called skilled because I can write with the pen. I cannot accept this. I find it extremely non-egalitarian to say they are unskilled and I am skilled. It's only a way of looking at it. Knowledge is also like that.

  Aruna Roy

  Writing, People, India

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• The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Mass Destruction, Funeral, Black

  "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.

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• When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.

  Bruno Munari

  Sunset, Drawing, Hands

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• Do not pick up the pen unless you understand how heavy it is, and how long you may carry it for.

  Jason Ellis

  Long, May, Heavy

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• As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream.

  Robert Macfarlane

  Running, Fall, Writing

  Robert Macfarlane (2012). “The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot”, p.95, Penguin

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• Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

  Christopher Smart

  Paper, Sun, Desks

  Horace, Christopher Smart (1819). “The Works of Horace”, p.235

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

  Juana Inés de la Cruz

  Imagine, Walks

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• I used to always read with a pen in my hand, as if the author and I were in a conversation.

  Tara Bray Smith

  Hands, Used, Conversation

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• Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.

  Rick Mercer

  America, Bulls, These Days

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• Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig or calf, and that is one of God's creatures you're looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.

  Matthew Scully

  Pigs, Lambs, Littles

  Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

  Anne Tyler

  Morning, Writing, Trying

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• I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Book, Writing, Paper

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

  Gino Bartali

  Men, Purpose, Stories

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• The publisher, Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every word that I wrote. I assume that mostly refers to my exposing the lies used by President Bush to justify the invasion of Iraq. Fortunately sixty percent of Americans now get the point, but only after tens of thousand of Americans and Iraqis have been killed and maimed as the carnage spirals out of control. My only regret is that my pen was not sharper and my words tougher.

  Robert Scheer

  Regret, Lying, Iraq

  "On Leaving the LA Times". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• I've always known that the best part of writing occurs before you've picked up a pen. When a story exists only in your mind, its potential is infinite; it's only when you start pinning words to paper that it becomes less than perfect. You have to make your choices, set your limits. Start whittling away at the cosmos, and don't stop until you've narrowed it down to a single, ordinary speck of dirt. And in the end, what you've made is not nearly as glorious as what you've thrown away.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Writing, Perfect, Choices

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• With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now.

  Satoshi Kon

  Gratitude, Leaving, Feelings

  "Satoshi Kon, His Wife, Madhouse Studio Write About His Passing (Update 4)" by Egan Loo, www.animenewsnetwork.com. August 25, 2010.

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• 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."

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Men, One Day

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• When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

  Arcangela Tarabotti

  Pain, Writing, Hands

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• Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love, Beautiful, Brother

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