Ink Quotes

368 Ink quotes by 292 unique authors

Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in,… — Honore de Balzac
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… — John Ray
Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink. — Elvis Costello
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
Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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

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