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Quotes About Pen

The greatest of my gifts being a consummate capacity for doing nothing, I cannot even point to boredom as a rational stimulus for taking up a pen. The pen, at any rate, was there, and there is nothing wonderful in that.
~ Joseph Conrad
Her pen tapped her order pad, excitement finding a way out, the way bubbles of air find their way to the surface.
~ Danny Wallace
liked that. He made a note, using a blue pen on a small notepad he had started carrying around
~ David Archer
Then the bull shook himself, turned his head and looked at us. There was an awed whisper from one of the young men: "By gaw, it's working!" I enjoyed myself after that. I can't think of anything in my working life that has given me more pleasure than standing in that pen directing the life-saving jet and watching the bull savouring it.
~ James Herriot
Hold your pen and spare your voice.
~ Dorothy Parker
At least, he thought, looking down at his feet, his socks were still in decent shape. It was the socks that went first. A whore he knew said that she only took customers whose socks were in good condition. One of Casson's fellow lodgers showed him how he used a pen to color in the skin that showed white in the holes.
~ Alan Furst
His cap may be emblazoned with equality, but Anderson's pen smacks of racism, which was true also of the undoubtedly great Karl Marx.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
The pen would enjoy a second life years later, in the 1890s, when converted into the first electric tattoo needle.)
~ Randall E. Stross
I had some superstitions when I was little. And a winning pen is always a good thing to have.
~ Judit Polgar
Richards then pulled the pen and ink well close.
~ Julie Garwood
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
~ Joseph Brodsky
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
~ William Allingham
Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.
~ William Robert Woodman
The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.
~ William Wordsworth
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
~ Winston Churchill
I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.
~ Emmanuel Jal
Like a bird, my thoughts were flying away so I became a writer to cage my thoughts with paper and pen. You should not call me a writer but rather a catcher of thoughts.
~ Debasish Mridha
A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful--then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
~ William Allingham
I shall head to my desk and write The sonnet that praises the antique pen Used to write out prophecies of today With you on my arm, unafraid.
~ David Lehman
Since there was no teacher listed for lunch, I grabbed a pen and wrote Mr. E Meat.
~ David Lubar
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
~ Edmond Jabes
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
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
~ Mitch Hedberg
So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.
~ Mitch Hedberg