Pens Quotes - Page 29

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

  George Washington

  Men, Vanity, Littles

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.324

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• [When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Voice, Violin, Fountain

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• A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

  Freya Stark

  Notebook, Pain, Journey

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.137, I.B.Tauris

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• the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

  Leslie Caron

  Father, Achievement, Finest

  Leslie Caron (1983). “Vengeance”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• 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.

  Denis Diderot

  Women, Butterfly, Dust

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• Sometimes, the best songs are the ones you write without any pen and paper or audio recording device or guitar in your hands. Because there's nothing between you and the melody; it's just a great lyric.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to deliver, a cause to plead, or a problem to unfold. Nothing but writing rests me; only then do I seem completely myself!

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Writing, Hands, Messages

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• Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Winning, Circles, Hints

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• Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may teach.

  Criss Jami

  Art, Vacation, Mind

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.40, Criss Jami

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

  J. G. Holland

  Doubt, Mind, Flax

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• Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

  Tamera Alexander

  Heart, Stories, Cry

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• Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. * * * Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Book, Heart

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• Youngsters inspired by Maoism have taken the gun and are spilling blood on streets, but our land needs the colour of progress not the colour of blood. Maoists must not have the gun in their hands, instead they must have agriculture tools and pens so that they can serve others. Raasta kalam, hal aur pasine ka hai, khoon ka nahi.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Taken, Gun

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• The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Creative, Cameras, Fantastic

  "Carlos Fuentes Trades His Pen for Television" by Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. December 31, 1990.

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• I think it says wonders about people that can write an entire album, and put out an entire album of great songs. I mean, the Brad Paisley's, Alan Jackson especially, even Taylor Swift - those people can really pen great stuff.

  Joe Nichols

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Law, Action

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 9, 1595.

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• I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me . . .

  Anthony Horowitz

  Heart, Night, Sky

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• I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that. I jot down lyrics wherever I am. Usually it's on a vomit bag on an airplane or something. I just look for a pen.

  Joshua Radin

  Song, Writing, Airplane

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• Niggers are killing niggers, and penitentiaries are full of niggers and Mexicans. Why don't y'all give us some money to help us stop this problem? We want to go to college instead of going to the pen. Give us a future.

  Snoop Dogg

  College, Giving, Want

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• Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Marine, May, Want

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• Nature did not put whales on this earth to splash kids while stuck in a pen.

  Jane Velez-Mitchell

  Kids, Whales, Earth

  "Free the killer whale" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2010.

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• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  Maira Kalman

  Ink, Etching, World

  "Maira Kalman's show at Jewish Museum". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. July 1, 2010.

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• Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Winning, Independence, Majestic

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• 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.

  Ba Jin

  Hate, Ashes, World

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