Quotes About Ink Pens

#1. I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.

Johnny Depp

#2. To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

Henry Fielding

#3. In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.

Erma Bombeck

#4. I take pride in using fountain pens. They represent craftsmanship and a love of writing. Biros, on the other hand, represent the throwaway culture of modern society, which exists on microwave ready-meals and instant coffee.

Fennel Hudson

#5. Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn't mean that they've changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn't mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. [Hannah:] Here is to Rylie Cates: May your pens never run out of ink, your computer never run out of power, and your brain never run out of brilliant ideas.

Jessica Lave

#7. Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

Douglas Rushkoff

#8. There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

James Branch Cabell

#9. Usually, I go through life with my mouth shut. I'm a loner, mainly because I'm more comfortable alone.

Nikki Sex

#10. I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

James Robertson

#11. And if all the trees on earth were pens and the ocean [were ink], with seven
oceans behind it to add to its [supply], yet would not the words of Allah be
exhausted [in the writing]: for Allah is Exalted in Power, full of Wisdom.

Anonymous

#12. Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Virgil

#13. Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#14. I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

Steve Breen

#15. There are the boys for whom the ink of a million glittery gel pens was spilled.

Katie Heaney

#16. The book did not say anything about a statue, valuable or otherwise, and so I stopped reading about the Bombinating Beast and got interested in the chapter about the Stain'd witches, who had ink instead of blood in their veins. I wondered what they kept in their pens.

Lemony Snicket

#17. Muscle is constantly being used - constantly being damaged. If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred - I mean, everybody would have cancer almost.

Eva Vertes

#18. Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

Walter Murch

#19. We produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. For there was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationary.

Charles Dickens

#20. Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.

Florence Littauer

#21. I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

Patrick Rothfuss

#22. I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

John Lescroart

#23. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

Harper Lee