Pen Quotes - page 10

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. (Pearl S. Buck)
We are not empire builders. How important this fact is no American who has not lived in Asia can appreciate. It goes against our conscience, which is a very tender part of the American spirit. Therefore we are learning how to hold our allies, not by force of arms and government, but by mutual benefit and friendship. So much is already clear... I am therefore hopeful. In spite of dismaying contradictions in individuals in our national scene, I feel the controlling spirit or our people, generous, decent, and sane. In this mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit. View quote
Guru Nanak Dev
Akbar was the first emperor to abolish Jizyah with one stroke of pen, along with all its associations and implications, including the distinction of Muslim and Dhimmî into the bargain. His son and grandson followed his example in regard to Jizyah, generally speaking, but reimposed upon the Hindus all the other restrictions and disabilities suffered by them before. View quote
Akbar
The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. View quote
Billy Collins
People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph. View quote
Walt Disney
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
In the work of Ts'ui Pên, all possible outcomes occur; each one is the point of departure for other forkings. Sometimes, the paths of this labyrinth converge: for example, you arrive at this house, but in one of the possible pasts you are my enemy, in another, my friend. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Abraham Lincoln his hand and pen he will be good but god knows When. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I've no spade to follow men like them. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests. I'll dig with it. (Seamus Heaney)
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. View quote
Seamus Heaney
Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself. View quote
Ernst Mach
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. View quote
Martin Luther
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, but it all comes to the same thing: peace in our time. 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 wildness 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. View quote
Aldo Leopold
The "medium is the message" is one of the world's silliest remarks. The message is the message, and it doesn't matter whether you send it by e-mail, a note in a bottle or on a picture postcard. The book, or the poem, or the play is what counts and it doesn't matter if it's written with a pen on a long sheet of ruled paper, as I am writing now, or on the most highly developed word processor. No machine can help with the rhythms of your prose, even if it can spell better than you can. View quote
John Mortimer
I 'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword. View quote
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page. View quote
Anne Enright
When Reg died and we first looked into getting a new dog, I was adamant we should pick up a mongrel from an animal-rescue shelter. It's not only that they're usually healthier and have better temperaments, they also fit with my world view - I prefer a ballpoint to a fountain pen, a barber to a hair stylist, and camping over glamping. View quote
Mark Barrowcliffe
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday. View quote
Nelson DeMille
When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast. (Patrick O'Brian)
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again. View quote
Regina Brett
Annabeth?” Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got thatlook.” "I don't have anlook.” "Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit together and your lips press together and-” "Do you have a pen?” she asked him. View quote
Rick Riordan
As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike's chariot. View quote
Rick Riordan
The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed. View quote
Romano Prodi