Pen Quotes - page 3

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen. (Walid Jumblatt)
Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who that it's naming.' For the loser now will be later to win. View quote
Bob Dylan
For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I know from experience that to one who thinks much and feels deeply, it often seems that he has only to put down his thoughts and feelings in order to produce something altogether out of the common; yet as soon as he sets to work he falls into a certain mannerism of style and common phraseology; his thoughts do not come spontaneously, and one might almost say that it is not the mind that directs the pen, but the pen leads the mind into common, empty artificiality. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. View quote
Chief Joseph
Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting-based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun. View quote
Warren Buffett
I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ... That evening, in the spring of 1947, on the embankment of the Seine in Paris, at the age of thirty, I saw that it was possible to live and work in the world, and that I could participate in the exchange of ideas that was taking place all around, bound to no country. View quote
Peter Weiss
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. View quote
Victor Hugo
i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away. View quote
Conor Oberst
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper. View quote
Peter Greenaway
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written. (Miguel de Cervantes)
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool. View quote
Paul Begala
Aid the dawning, tongue and pen; Aid it, hopes of honest men! View quote
Charles Mackay
Noise pollution is a relative thing. In a city it's a jet plane taking off. In a monastery it's a pen that scratches. View quote
Robert Orben
If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
I was very glad when Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the late war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely, that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and it proved unconquerable. It fell to me to express it and if I found the right word you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen, and by my tongue. View quote
Winston Churchill
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. View quote
Nelson Mandela
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot. (Albert Einstein)
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land. View quote
Aldo Leopold
If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking. View quote
Paul Arden
Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen. View quote
Stephen Charnock
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. View quote
George D. Prentice