Ink Quotes

How do you tell when you’re out of invisible ink?

Ink is the transcript of thought.

Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.

My children were all made from paper and printer's ink.

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

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

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.

A private meeting with Hoover is like sitting in a both of ink.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

A book unopened alters not the ink on it's pages

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Read two newspapers a day. And not just online. Hold them in your hands. Get ink on your fingers.

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 live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

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

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

Everybody has his own great ideas about what my art should be. But I can do whatever I like and there aren't many constraints to the way I work, whether I'm using a brush with ink or paint.

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

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

Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.

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.

It's not always the easiest thing to be the center of so much spilled ink.

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

Maybelline's Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I've ever used. I'm really bad at applying liquid liner and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

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.

Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.

The strongest memory is not as strong as the weakest ink.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.

Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press.

I take a slow sip of lukewarm coffee, reopen the book, and read the words scribbled in red ink near the top: Everyone needs an olly-olly-oxen-free.

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.

Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

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

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

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

My friends are coming up - they run this tattoo parlour out there and they're gonna ink me up with the tattoo I've been wanting since I was two, right here, upper arm.

Davis is a literargy dyspeptic who had more ink than blood in his veins, an intriguer, buys with private enmities.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

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 into a stiff sheet of black ink.

Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

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

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