Ink Quotes

368 quotes by 302 authors

My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
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… — James M. Barrie
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… — Jim Bishop
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. — Lord Byron
I don't want to give too much ink to foolish men. — Tori Amos
The Bible is the written word of God, and because it is written it is confined and limited by the necessities of ink and paper… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A very good drink they call Chaube that is almost as black as ink and very good in illness, especially of the stomach. This they… — Leonhard Rauwolf
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
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and… — J. B. Priestley
Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable. — Drake
We have all the freedoms we want. But what we are missing is red ink: the language to articulate our non-freedom. The way we are… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
In the printed page the only real things are the paper and the ink; the white spaces play the same part in aiding the eye… — John Burroughs
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.… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
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… — Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. — Henry Fielding
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

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