Ink Quotes
368 Ink quotes by 292 unique authors
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In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the…
— Mohsin Hamid
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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
— Mark Twain
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Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No memories and no…
— Henry Martyn
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Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is…
— Michael Ondaatje
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for…
— John Cage
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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…
— Jack Gantos
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Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink
— Andy Stanley
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At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.
— Jane Hirshfield
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Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.
— Owen Feltham
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A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The…
— Marya Mannes
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It's not the ink, it's the think.
— Robert Mankoff
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Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you…
— Eddie Van Halen
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The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.
— Dorothy Parker
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the…
— John Cage
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My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It…
— Ernst Mach
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I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.
— Todd McFarlane
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented…
— Zosia Mamet
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I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea…
— Edward Ruscha
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If you were to look at an old 'Betty Boop' cartoon or an 'Out of the Ink Well' animation, there are many things about 'Adventure…
— Fred Seibert
Who Wrote These Ink Quotes
292 authors contributed a total of 368 Ink Quotes, led by these top contributors: