Ballpoint Pen Quotes

#1. How old are you?" the woman asked. "You look about eleven." "Twenty-four," Mae said. "My god. You don't have a mark on you. Were we ever twenty-four, my love?" She turned to the man, who was using a ballpoint pen to scratch the arch of his foot. He shrugged, and the woman let the matter drop.

Dave Eggers

#2. The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

Roberto Rossellini

#3. It would be a shame to get expelled from school (or arrested) for trying to stab the principal with a ballpoint pen just because he doesn't use enough deodorant.

Rick Riordan

#4. As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike's chariot.

Rick Riordan

#5. I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.

Woody Allen

#6. I concentrated hard and snapped my fingers. "You don't see the sword," I told the girl. "It's just a ballpoint pen." She blinked. "Um ... no. It's a sword, weirdo.

Rick Riordan

#7. I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

Mackenzie Crook

#8. She picked up the ballpoint pen lying on the table, and played with it for a few seconds, but then she looked at the clock again. It had done its job: in the five minutes since her last look, it had advanced five minutes' worth.

Haruki Murakami

#9. I finally decide I'm just going to stab him a thousand times with a ballpoint pen.

John Green

#10. Mina penned the jubilant words into her blue spiral notebook with her favorite ballpoint pen. She faithfully used the same pen when writing all of her entries in the hope that

Chanda Hahn

#11. Perspective is so interesting. The smallest thing becomes pleasurable when troubles are monumental.

Sandra Vischer

#12. Which of the following two groups contains the most former grand dragons of the Ku Klux Klan - the first 59 Tea Party people you run into this morning, or the U.S. Senate Democratic caucus?

Howie Carr

#13. I must never write when I do not want to write.

Langston Hughes

#14. Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.

Mark Gatiss

#15. Would you still love me if I killed someone?" I said nothing. My breath was coming too fast. "I would still love you," Go said. "Go, do you really need me to say it?" She stayed silent. "I did not kill Amy." She stayed silent. "Do you believe me?" I asked. "I love you.

Gillian Flynn

#16. He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

Rainbow Rowell

#17. I ordered a Kindle 2 from Amazon. How could I not? There were banner ads for it all over the Web. Whenever I went to the Amazon Web site, I was urged to buy one.

Nicholson Baker

#18. He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Mark Twain

#19. Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Jonathan Swift

#20. When NASA started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ballpoint pens don't work in zero gravity. So they spent twelve million dollars and more than a decade developing a pen that writes under any condition, on almost every surface. The Russians used a pencil.

Garrison Keillor