Pens Quotes - Page 6

• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  William Blake

  Despair, Talent, Shame

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

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• I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

  Honore de Balzac

  Writing, Ink, Slave

  Letter to Zulma Carraud, translated by C. Lamb Kenney, July 2, 1832.

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• Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

  Aristide Briand

  Peace, Writing, Gun

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• We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher's hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.

  David Warlick

  Education, Teacher, Technology

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• Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

  Glen Hansard

  Song, Writing, Hands

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• I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Book, Gun

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• It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Pieces, Puppy

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• Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Bird, Parent

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Holiday

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• Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.

  Damian Marley

  Knives, Stronger, Killing

  FaceBook post by Damian Marley from Mar 11, 2013

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• The pencil is mightier than the pen.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Pencils

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• 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.

  Jason Flemyng

  Eye, Bird, Bags

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.

  Pierre Loti

  Writing, Cat, Animal

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

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Men

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

  Magic, Ink, Bottles

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• I usually dream of melodies. When I wake up I have them in my head. I usually come up with things in the middle of the night because that's when my mind is the quietest. I always have my tape recorder, pen and pad by my bed just in case.

  Leona Lewis

  Dream, Night, Mind

  "Leona Lewis Has a Health Condition That Makes Her Scared of Balconies" by Lexi Petronis, www.glamour.com. October 16, 2012.

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• With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Hands, Has Beens, Excommunication

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 76, 1799.

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• The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

  Al-Ghazali

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Waiting, Grace

  Richard Baxter (1817). “The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised”, p.993

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• And write whatever Time shall bring to pass
  With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

  John Dryden

  Time, Writing, Brass

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.77

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• Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

  Charles Dickens

  Hands, Feet, Office

  Charles Dickens (1863). “David Copperfield”, p.276

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• The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.86, Booklassic

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• 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

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Thinking, Paper

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• The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Health, Hands, Paper

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1964). “Diseases of Workers”

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