Ink famous quotes
04-24-2025
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Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
-- Aberjhani -
The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.
-- Adrian Rogers -
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
-- Alan Watts -
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
-- Alexander Pope -
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
-- Alfred Nobel -
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink
-- Andy Stanley -
[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.
-- Anthony Atala -
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
-- Augustus William Hare -
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 -
The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today
-- Bill Buxton -
People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.
-- Bo Belinsky -
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen -
I was drawing professionally by the time I was 12. I used to do very detailed sort of photorealistic pen-and-ink work, and I burned out on it around, like, high school. And cartooning really got me back into drawing.
-- Dan Povenmire -
Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain’s Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.
-- David Bianculli -
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.
-- David Wroblewski -
The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.
-- Edmund Campion -
Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.
-- Edward A. Pollard -
A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
-- Edward Abbey -
Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it
-- Elizabeth Wein -
It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
-- Felix Dennis -
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
-- George Ayittey -
Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.
-- Gloria Gaither -
I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.
-- Graham Swift -
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.
-- Guru Nanak -
I love craftsmanship of any kind, a job well done either by my chiropractor or carpenter, and I am addicted to print, the type, the ink. But my basic passion is journalism and I can't live without being online.
-- Harold Evans -
Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
-- Henry de Montherlant -
Fool! Nothing but black ink runs through my veins!
-- Hiromu Arakawa -
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.
-- Horace Greeley -
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
-- Horace Walpole -
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
-- Hosea Ballou -
There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
-- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite -
The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.
-- Isamu Noguchi -
A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages
-- J.R. Ward -
When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.
-- Jack Gantos -
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
-- Jack Kerouac -
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.
-- Jacob M. Appel -
It is the world, my boy," he said. "All the World, in ink and blood, vellum and parchment, leather and hide. It is the World, and it is yours to save or lose.
-- James A. Owen -
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
-- James Joyce -
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
-- James M. Barrie -
Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
-- James M. Barrie -
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
-- James Robertson -
At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.
-- Jane Hirshfield -
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
-- Janet Flanner -
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
-- Jim Bishop -
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
Read two newspapers a day. And not just online. Hold them in your hands. Get ink on your fingers.
-- John Callaway -
What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.
-- John Olsen -
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
-- John Ray -
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.
-- John Ray -
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.
-- Joseph Conrad -
To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.
-- Julia Quinn -
If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written.
-- Kabir -
Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious
-- Kathryn Stockett -
My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.
-- Lane Kirkland -
There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.
-- Leigh Bardugo -
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
-- Leo Burnett -
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
-- Lord Acton -
Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.
-- Lu Xun -
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
-- Maira Kalman -
i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.
-- Michael Cunningham -
I remember when I was a kid looking at different types of film and really examining the grains of them. I remember even looking at the ink streaks.
-- Michael Pitt -
Our lives are written in disappearing ink.
-- Michelle Cliff -
I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.
-- Mitch Daniels -
Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
-- Owen Feltham -
Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time.
-- Ralph Steadman -
Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.
-- Richard Hugo -
I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.
-- Rick Danko -
Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.
-- Sara Gruen -
The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.
-- Sarah Schulman -
Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.
-- Silas House -
Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Ooh, J, he's got ink too." "Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter...
-- Tammara Webber -
The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man
-- Tan Twan Eng -
The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan and their followers. Haldane, Wright, and Fisher are the pioneers of population genetics whose main research equipment was paper and ink rather than microscopes, experimental fields, Drosophila bottles, or mouse cages. Theirs is theoretical biology at its best, and it has provided a guiding light for rigorous quantitative experimentation and observation.
-- Theodosius Dobzhansky -
I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.
-- Todd McFarlane -
Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon....
-- Tommy Lasorda -
And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink
-- Vikram Seth -
Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.
-- Wu Guanzhong -
Retarded kids are the best. When they ask for an autograph I just fake sign a picture and tell them that it's in invisible ink and it will show up later. They totally buy it. It saves me a fortune in markers.
-- Zach Braff -
Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.
-- Alexandra Cousteau -
Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.
-- Keith Rabois -
Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.
-- Mary Jo Salter -
I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me!
-- Meiko -
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.
-- Roger L'Estrange -
I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.
-- Tom Verducci -
When you are telling your story, hold your own ink pen. Don't let anybody else tell your story.
-- Tracy Martin -
Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.
-- Brian Pinkerton
