Pen Quotes - page 13

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. (Jack Prelutsky)
My pen.' Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch', ‘the paper', but ‘my pen'. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It's about the most important thing I own. View quote
John Marsden
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. View quote
John Philip Sousa
I'm more of a feel pitcher. If something's wrong, I don't watch a video. I go throw in the bull pen until it feels right. View quote
Justin Verlander
Home has always been wherever I am. I'm not very attached to walls - or people, for that matter - so I've always loved travelling around. A book in my back pocket, a diary, and a pen is all I need to call any place home. View quote
Lou Doillon
That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing. View quote
Leigh Whannell
For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad. View quote
Lemon Andersen
I try to stay away from stuff that's just action, action, action, action, action, and you kind of fast-forward through the dialogue scenes. I'm not interested in doing that. Give me a reason to fight, and I'll go there. But don't just make it, 'You touched my pen! Haaa-yah!' I've done that before. View quote
Mark Dacascos
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. View quote
Maira Kalman
Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic. View quote
Alison Tyler
If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen. (Bill Owens)
These deserters were our undoing. I shall have a good deal more to say about them before I finally lay down my pen, and I shall not hesitate to call them by their true name, the name with which they will be for ever branded before all the nations of the world. View quote
Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. View quote
Grace Darling
I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen. View quote
Jason Williams
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. View quote
Jay Dratler
I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. View quote
John Oldham
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. View quote
Mary Garden
Before I could even hold a pen I was singing. View quote
Melanie Fiona
A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United States was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia. View quote
Mercy Otis Warren
There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger. View quote
Michael Anti
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. (Mother Jones)
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity. View quote
Natalie Goldberg
I want young people to be able to buy into what I design. When I was young, I wanted to buy designer brands even if all I could afford was the cheapest wallet, the cheapest pen, the cheapest T-shirt because I wanted to be a part of it. View quote
Nicola Formichetti
Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull. View quote
Rick Mercer
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death. View quote
Robert Toombs