Quotes of Ink - somelinesforyou

“ A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ 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. ”

- Catherine Drinker Bowen

“ Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it — ink it! ”

- Unknown

“ The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ”

- Mohammed

“ The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ”

- Jim Bishop

“ Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret… to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. ”

- Leo Burnett

“ Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. ”

- William Jefferson Clinton

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

- Janet Flanner

“ I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper. ”

- Julian Green

“ 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. ”

- Lane Kirkland

“ I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. ”

- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

“ This is a budget that will turn a stream of red ink into a raging river that will threaten to wash away Social Security. ”

- Mary Landrieu

“ When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ 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. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly. ”

- Rolf Smith

“ Government is the only institution that can take a valuable commodity like paper, and make it worthless by applying ink. ”

- Ludwig Van Moses

“ But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ”

- Lord Byron

“ I am a galley slave to pen and ink. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ 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. ”

- James M. Barrie

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

- Hosea Ballou

“ But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents, or my own? ”

- Alexander Pope

“ I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent. ”

- Quran

“ It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. ”

- Horace Walpole

“ No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. ”

- James Joyce

“ Our life experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. ”

- Dr. Walter Smith
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