Ink Quotes

368 Ink quotes by 292 unique authors

The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper. — Jules Renard
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. — William Shakespeare
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought… — Kenji Miyazawa
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. — Henry Fielding
Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to… — Conan O'Brien
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my… — John Lyly
Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press. — Horace Greeley
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
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… — Isamu Noguchi
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… — Joseph Conrad
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… — Dan Povenmire
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. — Milton Friedman
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time… — Mitch Daniels
You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your… — Carl Hiaasen
I don't see the world unless I see it in ink. — Jewel
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. — James Joyce
Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of… — Marcy Kaptur
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats.… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
Memory is more indelible than ink. — Anita Loos
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders… — Pierre Loti
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. — Harvey Mackay
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless… — Marcel Marceau
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole… — Christopher Morley
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. — Vladimir Nabokov
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were,… — George Orwell

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