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For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? -- Sir John Davies
Pens carry further than rifled cannon. -- Bayard Taylor
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. -- Jane Austen
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism. -- Malala Yousafzai
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. -- Voltaire
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. -- Graham Greene
The pen is the tongue of the mind. -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
To hold a pen is to be at war. -- Voltaire
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. -- Horace Walpole
Putting pen to paper lights more fire than matches ever will -- Malcolm Forbes
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. -- Petrarch
The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten. -- Natasha Bedingfield
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.. -- Dale Dauten
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. -- James Joyce
The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. -- Aravind Adiga
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. -- William Shakespeare
Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs; -- William Shakespeare
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. -- Terry Pratchett
Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen. -- William Robert Woodman
I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people. -- George D. Prentice
And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear. -- William Blake
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. -- Walt Disney
The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good. -- John Dryden
My first job was cleaning sheep pens. -- Brian Sandoval
Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants. -- Nicholson Baker
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. -- Alan Perlis
I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase. -- Todd Barry
Throwaway pens are no good - I never liked them. I've tried them all. -- Robert Crumb
Tomorrow it'll all be over, then I'll have to go back to selling pens again. -- Johnny Depp
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. -- Carl Reiner
I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. -- Mitch Hedberg
I keep a picture of my beloved children close by. Also, water and plenty of pads and pens. -- Alain de Botton
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus. -- John Clayton
Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? -- Alan King
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. -- Toni Morrison
Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you. -- Ellen G. White
When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat. -- Alexandra Stoddard
When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem. -- Eminem
I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills. -- Sharon Creech
I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points. -- Tony Kushner
I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill. -- Florence Welch
When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me. -- Naomie Harris
I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change. -- Mark Helprin
The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side. -- Colm Toibin
I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday. -- Maya Angelou
There is more done with pens than with swords. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild. -- Willie Nelson
I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns. -- Malala Yousafzai
When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is. -- Malala Yousafzai
I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase -- Todd Barry
Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms. -- Graham Parker
Bathe in your riches and friends, I'll stay here with my songbooks and pens -- Andy Biersack
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity. -- George Washington
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape. -- Charles Dickens
Let us keep our mouths shut and our pens dry until we know the facts. -- Anton Julius Carlson
If pens doubled as bullets, I bet few writers would want to write about war. -- Jarod Kintz
My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic. -- Eva Green
The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn't stop our minds from thinking. -- Malala Yousafzai
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass. -- John Dryden
I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made. -- Aristide Briand
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. -- Baltasar Gracian
The best way to fight terrorism is not through guns. It's through pens, books, teachers and schools. -- Malala Yousafzai
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women. -- Malala Yousafzai
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating. -- Erykah Badu
People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem. -- Eminem
My bag hit the floor, spilling overpriced books and pens across the shiny floor. My pens! My glorious pens rolled everywhere. -- J. Lynn
Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it's teaching you stuff, it's not being wasted. -- Danny Gregory
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. -- Henry Fielding
Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries. -- Tamera Alexander
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man. -- James Branch Cabell
[When asked if the voice is an instrument:] Yes, of course. Some are violins, some are fountain pens and some are stethoscopes. And others are just washboards. -- Marilyn vos Savant
On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dÃ©pens de sa mÃ©moire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory). -- Alain-Rene Lesage
I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing. -- Mitch Albom
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross? -- Alexander Pope
Let us pick up our books and our pens," I said. "They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world. -- Malala Yousafzai
I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people. -- Mikhail Sholokhov
Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza. -- Louise Fresco
I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear. -- Orhan Pamuk
I used to steal pens at the store. Back in the day when you would write checks, I would write a check and use the pen, and I would keep the pen. -- Rich Fulcher
I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness. -- James Watson
The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician's loneliness echoes in his performance. -- Gerard de Marigny
It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view. -- Daniel Handler
My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front. -- Chelsea Martin
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience. -- Dorothea Dix
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing. -- Gelett Burgess
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The wheel of Time wrote the first half of the poetry of mass destruction on the black board of the ashes of a funeral ground by dint of a pair of pens of nuclear bombs. -- Manmohan Acharya
I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left. -- Patrick Rothfuss

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