Top 27 Nib's Quotes
#1. Happy the man ... with a natural gift
for practising the right one [art] from the start
poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless;
whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass
like daylight through the rod's eye or the nib's eye.
Seamus Heaney
#2. Temptation was the color white. It was black ink, quivering at the point of a pen's nib.
Marie Rutkoski
#3. I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.
Michael Leunig
#5. I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.
Maurice Strong
#6. You know, the truth is that us actors would all like to believe we re-invent the wheel, every time we play a character. But, we're human beings and our instruments are not violins, they are our bodies and our consciousness and our collective life experience.
John C. Reilly
#7. ... your writer of intensities must have very black ink, and a very big pen, with a very blunt nib.
Edgar Allan Poe
#8. Children remind us that we're all children.
Marty Rubin
#9. your pen sticks upright by the nib in the carpet. If there were a cat to swing or a wife to murder now would be the time. So
Virginia Woolf
#10. The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. I write into an old book that smells of dust and whose pages are floppy with damp. Sometimes the ink splodges onto the paper, other times it will barely leave the nib of my pen.
Fennel Hudson
#12. I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
James Robertson
#13. Autobiography, we know, is flawed from the moment the nib of the pen touches the parchment.
Zia Haider Rahman
#14. Doomed to practice it day after day, even to the extent of dipping his nib in orange juice to make the words invisible, he has fallen in love with secrecy.
Paul West
#15. I believe there's something in the Bible about 'Thou shalt not call anyone insane who owns and is competent with more firearms than you own sharp sticks.'
Andrew Plotkin
#16. I cannot wait for her to stop being a teenager." "I can," Nib said. "Do you know how impossible it's going to be to boss her around when she's twenty?
Becky Chambers
#17. Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
Leo Tolstoy
#18. Word For The Day PICAYUNE (PIK uh yoon') adj. Trivial or petty, small or small-minded.
Deb Baker
#19. Seems you had your mind made up that I couldn't do anything ... so I didn't care if you knew or not.
Maggie Brendan
#20. Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've ... um ... entertained his wife.
Jojo Moyes
#21. Never interrupt an author when he or she is 'in the zone', else you'll understand the real meaning of 'writer's nib'.
Fennel Hudson
#22. Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes."
"What causes the other ten percent?" asked Kizzy.
"Natural disasters," said Nib.
Becky Chambers
#23. Writers, in essence, are professional word tamers; if the words walking down the lines were living creatures, they would surely fear and hate the pen's nib as tamed animals do the raised whip.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
#24. The gift of phrase was instantaneous to him in him, and that must partly account for his huge output; but there was a plentitude of mind as well as a swiftness of phrase to help him; he never put a nib wrong.
Jocelyn Gibb
#25. I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ink on cream paper. I love the sensation of a thought in my head and the vision of the word on the page.
Philippa Gregory
#26. Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.
Ovid
#27. Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
James MacGregor Burns
