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I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. (Quote by - Helmut Newton)

Pens carry further than rifled cannon. (Quote by - Bayard Taylor)

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. (Quote by - Graham Greene)

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)

When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will. (Quote by - Buffy Sainte-Marie)

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. (Quote by - Petrarch)

A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia. (Quote by - Mercy Otis Warren)

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. (Quote by - Michael Ondaatje)

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question. (Quote by - Todd Solondz)

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper. (Quote by - Shelby Foote)

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed. (Quote by - Daniela Pestova)

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. (Quote by - James Joyce)

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. (Quote by - Paul Simon)

A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. (Quote by - Paul Graham)

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands. (Quote by - Abdallah II)

The pen became a clarion. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. (Quote by - Helen Reddy)

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. (Quote by - Jane Austen)

So far had the pen, under the king, the superiority over the sword. (Quote by - Louis de Rouvroy duc de St. Simon)

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain. (Quote by - Dale Dauten)

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings. (Quote by - Irvin S. Cobb)

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with. (Quote by - Marty Feldman)

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that. (Quote by - Theo Van Gogh)

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