Top 486 Ink Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.
How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!
It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
I use a ball pen because fountain pens are clumsy, and I get ink all over my fingers by the time I finish with it.
Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.
Yeah, it's Pushaz Ink for life. Me, YG, and Mustard started a movement, and we brought back the West.
Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time.
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 a bottle of ink.
Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.
Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.
Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.
In dealing with athletes or celebrities or people in general, I think there's a tendency to get on their pedestal or their platform and just kind of blow the ink.
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.
I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable.
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.
There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
I start to think, and then I sink
Into the paper like I was ink
When I'm writing, I'm trapped in between the lines
I escape when I finish the rhyme.
Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream
A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.
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 energy and valuable ink.
I feel like everything great that's beginning to happen in my career started with the 'ink' Paste Magazine gave me!
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.
Free speech has remained a quintessential American ideal, even as our society has moved from the ink quill to the touch screen.
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.
My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.
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.
I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.
Ian paused and leaned closer to me so that I couldn't seem to see anything around his face, just snow and sapphire and ink.
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and only one guillotine.
I have always been inclined towards art, but hadn't painted in a long time. I restarted it during the lockdown, by making a sketch with an ink pen on a drawing sheet.
Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.
Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains. I feel strong [enough] to leap Yosemite walls at a bound.
'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favorite thing.
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.
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
[Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.
In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.
Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.
As grateful as I am to have been a part of a show like 'LA Ink,' I'm ready to end this chapter and want to focus on other projects now.
Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Put down the pen someone else gave you.
No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence.
