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I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.
Author:
Jason Williams
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Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
Author:
Ella Wilcox
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Author:
John Whittier
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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.
Author:
Christiaan Wet
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To hold a pen is to be at war.
Author:
Voltaire
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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.
Author:
Immanuel Velikovsky
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Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Author:
Henry Vaughan
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
Author:
Anne Tyler
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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.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.
Author:
Glenn Tipton
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Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Author:
Marlo Thomas
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Author:
William Thackeray
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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
Author:
John Synge
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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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.
Author:
John Sousa
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Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
Author:
Todd Solondz
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Author:
Paul Simon
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The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.
Author:
Philip Schaff
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When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.
Author:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.
Author:
Mary Retton
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I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
Author:
George Prentice
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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.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
Author:
Terry Pratchett
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I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
Author:
Terry Prachett
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Author:
Petrarch
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I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.
Author:
Daniela Pestova
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Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.
Author:
Rick Perry
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If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
Author:
Bill Owens
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
Author:
Ida Outhwaite
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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
Author:
Michael Ondaatje
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I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
Author:
John Oldham
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I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Author:
Helmut Newton
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If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said.
Author:
Kevin Nealon
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Author:
Maimonides
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
Author:
Samuel Lover
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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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.
Author:
Walid Jumblatt
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Author:
James Joyce
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
Author:
Mother Jones
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Author:
Mary Jones
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There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Author:
Muhammad Jinnah
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No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Author:
Harriet Jacobs
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You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
Author:
Guillermo Infante
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The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Author:
Julia Howe
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The pen is the tongue of the mind.
Author:
Horace
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Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Robin Williams. I am the king of the pen.
Author:
Mitch Hedberg
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I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
Author:
Mitch Hedberg
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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.
Author:
Graham Greene
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A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
Author:
Paul Graham
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I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.
Author:
Theo Gogh
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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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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.
Author:
Mary Garden
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
Author:
C. Forester
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I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
Author:
Shelby Foote
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I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.
Author:
Joseph Fiennes
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The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
Author:
Marty Feldman
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I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
Author:
Jay Dratler
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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.
Author:
Walt Disney
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Author:
Dale Dauten
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Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.
Author:
Grace Darling
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
Author:
Mackenzie Crook
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Author:
Irvin Cobb
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I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
Author:
John Cleveland
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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.
Author:
John Ciardi
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When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done.
Author:
Gisele Bundchen
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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The pen is mightier than the sword.
Author:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Author:
Max Beerbohm
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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Author:
Jane Austen
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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
Author:
Shmuel Agnon
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
Author:
Abdallah Abdallah II
