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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. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading. (Quote by - Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor. (Quote by - Pope Pius IX)

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. (Quote by - John Philip Sousa)

The pen has shaken nations. (Quote by - Martin Farquhar Tupper)

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth. (Quote by - David Brock)

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. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)

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. (Quote by - Joseph Fiennes)

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. (Quote by - Walid Jumblatt)

I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)

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. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. (Quote by - J. M. Synge)

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. (Quote by - Immanuel Velikovsky)

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)

Pen, wax and parchment govern the world. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

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. (Quote by - Muhammad Ali Jinnah)

In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers. (Quote by - John Adams)

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it. (Quote by - Laurence Sterne)

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. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)

Art thou a pen, whose task shall be To drown in ink What writers think? Oh, wisely write, That pages white Be not the worse for ink and thee. (Quote by - Ethel Lynn Beers)

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. (Quote by - John Ciardi)

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. (Quote by - Quintilian)

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. (Quote by - Guillermo Cabrera Infante)

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. (Quote by - Walt Disney)

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. (Quote by - John Oldham)

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