Ink Quotes - page 2

An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970. (Jonathan Franzen)
Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. View quote
Leo Burnett
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink... View quote
Virginia Woolf
i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away. View quote
Conor Oberst
The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder. View quote
Ogden Nash
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write. View quote
Aldous Huxley
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. View quote
J. M. Barrie
Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate. View quote
Sara Gruen
My children were all made from paper and printer's ink. View quote
Cornelia Funke
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. View quote
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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. (Ida Rentoul Outhwaite)
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks. View quote
Janet Flanner
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. View quote
Joseph Fiennes
Without a doubt, first thing we should do is clean up our fiscal house, and that starts with balancing our budgets and digging out of this red ink. We cannot expect to continue in this fashion and remain the leader of the free world. View quote
Marcy Kaptur
It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible. View quote
Max Walker
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper. View quote
Olive Schreiner
I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable. View quote
Rick Danko
I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely. View quote
Todd McFarlane
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 place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff. View quote
Zosia Mamet
...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted. View quote
Daniel Handler
Gentlemen, the most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it. And the most important part of experimentation is not doing the experiment but making notes, ve-ry accurate quantitative notes - in ink. I am told that a great many clever people feel they can keep notes in their heads. I have often observed with pleasure that such persons do not have heads in which to keep their notes. This iss very good, because thus the world never sees their results and science is not encumbered with them. ~ Gottlieb, Ch. 4. (Sinclair Lewis)
My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I love the smell of book ink in the morning. View quote
Umberto Eco
Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help. View quote
Jacob M. Appel
We have had enough perpetually hearing MACHINE MACHINE MACHINE MACHINE. In the repetition of the word MACHINE, we read the modern artist's ambivalent relationship to mechanical reproduction: on the one hand, the rigorous linear order and uniform application of ink presented by the thrice-repeated type written line celebrates sterility; and on the other hand the content of the sentence itself bemoans the transformation of the industrial paradigm into an aesthetic cliché. View quote
El Lissitsky