I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

- Barack Obama

Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.

- Chris Hadfield

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

- Carolyn Kizer

In this day the breeze of God is wafted, and His Spirit hath pervaded all things. Such is the outpouring of His grace that the pen is stilled and the tongue is speechless.

- Baha'u'llah

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.

- Buffy Sainte-Marie

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.

- Brandon Boyd

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

- Bill Owens

Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner, and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.

- Bethany Mota

If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.

- Billy Collins

The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

- Billy Collins

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

- Abdullah II of Jordan

Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

- Alison Tyler

Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

- Anupam Kher

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.

- Anthony Horowitz

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

- Anne Tyler

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

- Alison Gopnik

I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.

- Alice McDermott

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

- Adam Ant

Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.

- Alicia Keys

My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.

- Alexander Wang