| "I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)" »Jim Lehrer |
| "'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'" »Charles Dickens |
| "Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty." »Ellen Glasgow |
| "And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." »John Green |
| "The pen is the tongue of the mind." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "To hold a pen is to be at war." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "I am a galley slave to pen and ink." »Honore' de Balzac |
| "Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword." »Robert Burton |
| "The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been." »John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please." »Mother Jones |
| "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'" »John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away." »Victor Hugo |
| "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| "There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen." »Leo Tolstoy |
| "I felt like poisoning a monk." »Umberto Eco |
| "But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write." »Sir Philip Sidney |
| "The pain of falling APART is felt only after you have been A PART!!!!" »Siddharth Astir |
| "In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do." »Dorothea Dix |
| "I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music." »Aretha Franklin |
| "The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents." »Winston Churchill |
| "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." »Helen Keller |
| "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." »Douglas Adams |
| "I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours." »Monica Baldwin |
| "He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong." »Henry Graham Greene |
| "I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win." »Arnold Palmer |
| "Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt." »Francis Bacon |
| "Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm." »Pamela Ribon |
| "He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful." »Dame Rose Macaulay |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
