Top 1200 Ink And Paper Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Ooh, J, he's got ink too." "Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter.

She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

I can explain to you in detail just how a tree can be made into paper. But I've always wondered - and hoped - that someday, someone would help me discover how paper can be made back into a tree.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.

I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.

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

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

I believe that every paper in the country should have one headline that when you read it, you laugh so hard you can't stand it. It has to be that way. What about a headline like this: 'Hippo Eats Dwarf'? How good is that? You read that headline, and you immediately close the paper and say, 'Wow, it's gonna be a great day.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

What is to be done with people who can't read a Sunday paper without messing it all up?... Show me a Sunday paper which has been left in a condition fit only for kite flying, and I will show you an antisocial and dangerous character who has left it that way.

The HoLee model was the first term structure model. I remember reading their paper soon after it was published and as it was fairly different from many of the other papers that I had read, I had to read it quite a few times. I realized that it was a really important paper.

Each memory is like a paper flower stowed up a magician's sleeve: invisible one moment and then so substantial and florid the next I cannot imagine how it stayed hidden all this time. And like those paper flowers, once they've been let loose in the world, the memories are impossible to tuck away again.

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

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

There is no such thing as a paper loss. A paper loss is a very real loss.

What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.

Think of the aged and bed-ridden Matisse cutting out strips of coloured paper, much as a child might, and investing them with a more than mortal vitality... Those strips of paper resonate because they prove that our materials don't determine in advance the worth of what we make.

When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

An ocean of ink - real and virtual - has been spilled critiquing the appearance of female politicians.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Before I got in the UFC, I wrote down on a piece of paper a goal that I was going to make it to the UFC in 2015 and then I'll be the world champion before 2017 so I'm right on track. I pull out that piece of paper all the time and look at it. It's motivation.

Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

Like a page dipped in ink, your cuff's in my coffee. / You have something to tell with unbuttoned sleeves.

If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes to an end, they're going to have the gold. If you're playing in ETFs, you're going to have a piece of paper.

I don't know how much money I've got. I did ask the accountant how much it came to. I wrote it down on a bit of paper. But I've lost the bit of paper.

Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

E-readers are uninspired. They're slabs of plastic with fiddly controls and display a badly-formatted, typographically impoverished rendering of a paper book. That's not the electronic book I want. I want a gorgeous physical object, with paper pages, that can transform into any story I choose, perfectly presented on the page.

If I'm not in an environment where I can record, it's great to be able to write something down, to be able to know how to do that, to be able to write notation. You grab a piece of paper and there it is. It's the cheapest recording equipment you can buy: a piece of manuscript paper and a pencil!

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

Text is just ink on a page until a reader comes along and gives it life.

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

"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

I love how me deciding to not continue doing 'LA Ink' turns into being 'cancelled.'

One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.