Top 17 Penning Quotes
#1. Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline, a first act, a first stanza. There are simply people who start all sorts of things and yet never finish any of them. And that was the kind of person I was.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#2. But if the star should set, even while I am penning these lines, be it so; still I can say it has shone, and I have received a rich portion.
Hans Christian Andersen
#3. I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.
Lauren Oliver
#4. Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.
Roger Scruton
#5. Decisions are the privilege we've been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#6. The writing process is like developing a photograph; you never know what will turn out. There's nothing like penning a frame, and giving the story world permission to unfold as I witness the picture come into focus.
Paige Crutcher
#7. At their time of life they should be wearing trouser suits and baking cakes, maybe spending their days penning hand-written letters of complaint to newspapers. Not drinking alcopops with crude straws in them.
Matthew Crow
#8. In the mid-nineties, I quit my job as a senior feature writer at 'The Mail' on Sunday in the U.K. and became a 'ghost writer,' collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, soldiers and sporting legends who needed help in penning their autobiographies.
Michael Robotham
#9. Now you're just being silly. He's a mercenary- he's not going to go about penning love letters, and really, what would he write? 'Anna ... love you ... grrr?' Olivia to Annalia
Kresley Cole
#10. Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is tarnished as a result.
Andrew Barger
#11. It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
Frederick Douglass
#12. He didn't see a man with hopes and dreams, with disappointments and accomplishments. All he saw in front of him was just another nigger.
Kenneth Eade
#13. When all shall fail us, then God will take care of us, and then all will not fail us since we shall have God.
Francis De Sales
#15. The little-understood concept of interdependence appears to many to smack of dependence, and therefore, we find people, often for selfish reasons, leaving their marriages, abandoning their children, and forsaking all kinds of social responsibility - all in the name of independence.
Stephen R. Covey
#16. The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
Paulo Coelho
