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Tag Name "Ink" (242)

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
John Milton
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Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.
Mark Strand
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Ink is the great cure for all human ills.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
John Muir
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Ink is the transcript of thought.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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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.
Ambrose Bierce
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He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.
Virginia Woolf
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
Saint Augustine
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Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.
Wilfred Grenfell
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Honey, I plan to marry you the moment the ink is dry on that death certificate.
Sara Gruen
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in black ink my love may still shine bright.
William Shakespeare
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Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.
Silas House
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If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.
William Shakespeare
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Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
Stephen Fry
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Go, write it in a martial hand be curst and brief it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
William Shakespeare
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Just snow and sapphire and ink.
Stephenie Meyer
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T. S. Eliot
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Ooh, J, he's got ink too. Just when i didn't think he could get any hotter.
Tammara Webber
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Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.
Pablo Neruda
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For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends. They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.
Tilden Edwards
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I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.
Patrick Rothfuss
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I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.
Todd McFarlane
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Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
Patrick Rothfuss
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