Ink Quotes · Page 3

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

— Julien Green

A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages

— J.R. Ward

How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?

— Steven Wright

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

— Edward Abbey

The palest ink will endure beyond the memories of man

— Tan Twan Eng

“Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion”

— Tawny Lara

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

— Julia Quinn

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

— Molly Crabapple

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

— Leo Burnett

Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

— Edward A. Pollard

Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts…

— Wilfred Grenfell

“My pen lies idle, its ink long since dried up, leaving me with nothing but blank pages and a hollow sense of…

— Paulo Coelho

Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such…

— William Shakespeare

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

— Dorothy Parker

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge…

— Georges Simenon

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in…

— Allison Pearson

Even after I got my divorce, the ink wasn't even dry on the paper, and I said, 'Ooh, the next time I…

— Niecy Nash

I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That's probably the craziest thing I've ever seen: Somebody…

— Danny McBride

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had…

— Steve Erickson

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the…

— Milan Kundera

A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the…

— Leonhard Rauwolf

My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that…

— Anonymous

If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many…

— Fred Seibert

Relius looked away. "He said that you...cried," he said softly. "But not that he cried as well," said the queen, amused at…

— Megan Whalen Turner

You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can…

— Italo Calvino

“A poetess is not as selfish as you assume. After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride— and spaces—the groom,…

— Kamand Kojouri

Where some may see flat, static narratives, I see a spectrum of tonal gradations and realities. What I am creating is literally…

— Toyin Odutola

Peace ca n exist only in the present moment. It is rid iculous to say "Wait until I fi nish this, then…

— Nhat Hanh

“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

The foundations of population genetics were laid chiefly by mathematical deduction from basic premises contained in the works of Mendel and Morgan…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine,…

— Ada Lovelace

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

— Owen Feltham

“The greatest teachers imbue fragments of their souls into their teachings.”

— Monaristw

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

— Anonymous

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

— Anthony Atala

“Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually.

— David Hockney

What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

— John Olsen