Quotes About Pen

Read him well, and he will help you much, for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world and paint it with your pen.

Now knowledge became the high road to control, and for women the pen had one major advantage over the sword; it fitted neatly into a female fist of any size, age, creed or country in the word.

Danglars gehörte zu jenen Menschen, die mit einer Feder hinter dem Ohr und mit einem Tintenfass an Stelle des Herzens geboren werden.

The Nagid expressed the idea in verse: Man's wisdom is in what he writes, good sense at the end of his pen; and using his pen he can climb to the height of the scepter in the hand of his king.14

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

Any other boy would be flattered. Pleased with himself. Any other boy would go straight to the seat she'd saved for him every day, not just when there's nowhere else to sit. Any other boy would lean close to compare notes. Borrow a pen. Compliment her. Tease her to find out if she has a steady boyfriend. Beg her for a date.

To Those Without Pity Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.

Recite: In the name of thy Lord who created,Created Man of a blood clot.Recite: And thy Lord is the mostGenerous, who taught by the Pen,Taught Man that he knew not.

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond.

Although I myself have not been a huge follower of Shakespeare's dramatic nuances during my academic years, these plays that were penned down centuries ago loom large in every student's psyche, quite effortlessly.

I close my eyes. I am the visionary, the one-eyed seer, the storyteller. I am Pen. I can fight with the power of images and words.

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft.

A mon goût, tout cela est trop écrit, d'un style trop précieux, trop conscient... J'écris toujours mieux et plus aisément ce que je n'ai pas porté trop longtemps en tête ; dès que ma pensée précède ma plume, c'est pour arrêter celle-ci.

I pointed to my left toe shoe, where I'd written (in red ink, with the calligraphy pen that no longer cursed me), 'For Becca, with love from Princess Aurora.

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

The pen mirrors language and character: An ignorant person sprays ignorance An intelligent figure enlightens intelligence.

Though one writes about humanity, equality, neutrality, justice, and such other terms routinely; however, it is a pen, not character; otherwise, the entire world was at peace.

To become the mirror, I criticise myself. I do not misuse and violate the freedom of speech and the press, but I am mostly out and overdosed. I cannot stop without gaming the system. The licence of the tongue and the pen gun is in my hands.

The challenge is not to pen down a sensitivity thought with clarity and brevity, but then to make it understand or accept in totality to the vast majority.

A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.

Poet: should you receive the applause of the people, ask yourself: what have I done wrong? ! And if your second book is so received as well, then cast away your pen: you can never be great. […] Art for the people? ! : leave that slogan to the Nazis and Communists: it's just the opposite: the people (everyman!) are obligated to struggle their way to art!

I don't know who in my family thinks very fast at all, including me. The things that people see me do onstage are written, so it doesn't have to be very quick if you have all day with a pen.