Pens Quotes - Page 22

• Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

  Alex Ebert

  Tools, Clumsy

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• When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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• A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.... We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Heart, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations...”

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• You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Creativity, Color, Space

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• Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write 'splendid,' but also, 'I don't believe a word of it.' And even 'bullshit.'

  Tim Parks

  Believe, Writing, Hands

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• Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

  Marya Mannes

  War, Heart, Men

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• Take time to be quiet. This is something that we don't do enough in this busy world of ours. We rush, rush, rush, and we are constantly listening to noise all around us. The human heart was meant for times of quiet, to peer deep within. It is when we do this that our hearts are set free to soar and take flight on the wings of our own dreams! Schedule some quiet "dream time" this week. No other people. No cell phone. No computer. Just you, a pad, a pen, and your thoughts.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Heart, Phones

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• In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary, and the National Front's Marine Le Pen received strong backing in France's presidential election. Growing support for similar forces across Europe points to an inescapable conclusion: the continent's prolonged financial crisis is creating a crisis of values that is now threatening the European Union itself.

  George Soros

  Strong, Money, Marine

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• Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get up, we should prostrate in that place. It is good to cultivate the habit of considering our pen, books, clothes, vessels, and the tools of our job as imbued with divine presence and use them with care and respect. This will help keep the thought of God alive throughout our body, mind and atmosphere.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Jobs, Book, Clothes

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• I take it that a monograph of this sort belongs to the ephemera literature of science. The studied care which is warranted in the treatment of the more slowly moving branches of science would be out of place here. Rather with the pen of a journalist we must attempt to record a momentary phase of current thought, which may at any instant change with kaleidoscopic abruptness.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Moving, Science, Thinking

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• In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

  Aubrey Beardsley

  Book, Garden, Tears

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• Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.

  Terry Eagleton

  Book, Reading, Space

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

  Glen Hansard

  Thinking, Snob, Happens

  "Glen Hansard: The Best Songs Come 'As A Gift'". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 15, 2012.

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• I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

  Glen Hansard

  Editing, Ideas, Creative

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• I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

  Glen Hansard

  Guitar, Play, Might

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• The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

  Rick Bragg

  Paper, Journalism, Backgrounds

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• The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

  Lincoln Child

  Writing, Thinking, Funny Things

  "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Interview with Brian A. Klems, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.

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

  Mackenzie Crook

  Mediums, Ballpoint Pens, Draws

  "Goodbye cruel Slough" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2004.

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• So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Writing, Airports, Paper

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• Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

  Melanie Fiona

  Singing

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• I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

  Joshua Ferris

  Moving, Writing, Thinking

  "Writers' rooms: Joshua Ferris", www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2007.

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• 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.

  Tupac Shakur

  Death, Couple, Writing

  Song: Life Goes On

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• Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

  Garth Brooks

  Men, Infidelity, Papa

  Song: Papa Loved Mama, 1991

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• We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum: In wilderness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.

  Aldo Leopold

  Life, Running, Men

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 133, 1949.

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• Trust me, I did not set out to establish three pen names and, for the record, I do not recommend it as a career strategy. The idea back at the start was that I would stick with the name that proved most successful.

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Successful, Names, Careers

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