Pen Quotes

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.
Marlo Thomas

Lost, Door, Public

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Give, Corruption, Slavery

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.
Anthony Horowitz

Happy, Simple, Hand

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
Carlos Fuentes

Life, Free, Creative

Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull.
Rick Mercer

America, Days, Attached

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
Alexander Wang

Mom, Shoes, Ask

I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.
Anne M. Mulcahy

Time, Good, Moving

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
Todd Solondz

Great, Everything, Put

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.
Glen Hansard

Become, Happens, Pick

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.
Glen Hansard

Love, Yourself, Thought

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.
Glen Hansard

Best, Write, Song

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.
Glen Hansard

Play, Guitar, Until

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.
Graham Swift

Nice, Mean, Brain

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.
John Philip Sousa

Beauty, Lie, Remember

I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
Karl Pilkington

Work, Experience, School

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
Mary Harris Jones

Afraid, Sword, Scaffold

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
Melanie Fiona

Before, Singing, Hold

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.
Shelby Foote

Between, Paper, Mechanical

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
Bill Owens

Compromise, Ask, Principle

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
Natalie Goldberg

Moving, Writing, Keep

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.
Oscar Niemeyer

Nothing, Building, Pick

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.
Terry Prachett

Before, Waited, Perform

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.
Mary Lou Retton

Time, Mind, Giving

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.
Mercy Otis Warren

America, State, United

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.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Tell, Shows, Drawing

I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday.
Nelson DeMille

Wanted, Write, Used

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.
Jason Williams

Him, Write, Took

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.
Robert Toombs

Death, Fire, Understand

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.
Paul Graham

Thinking, Thought, Language

I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.
Jake Owen

Time, Best, Down

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