Quotes About Ink

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

The night was without stars or horizon. The sea and sky bled ink into each other.

I am Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg," said the holographic image, who had ink stains all over his fingertips.

Ink is the cosmetic that ideas will wear when they go out in public. Graphite is their dirty truth.

Yearly we use mountains of paper and rivers of ink reprinting dead men's brains, while the living Holy Ghost is seeking for men to trample underfoot their own learning, deflate their inflated ego,

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 adore tattoos. They're not painful; you just get an urge to swear a lot.

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.

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.

Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

in black ink my love may still shine bright.

If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)

Never durst a poet touch a pen to write Until his ink was tempered with love's sighs.

Yo estaba acostumbrado desde hacia ya mucho tiempo a escribir todas mis notas con tinta encarnada; Fisher empleaba corrientemente un lápiz verde. Cito sus palabras: «Eran las luces de babor y estribor». En tanto estas brillaran juntas, todo iría bien. Habíamos montado una combinación, que en tanto subsistiera, no podía ser vencida ni por intrigas interiores ni por el enemigo en el mar.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

Let James rejoice with the Skuttle-Fish who foils his foe by the effusion of his ink.

I am only certain of one thing. If we are the sum total of our relationships, my balance sheet is bleeding red ink.

The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.

The ink of any pen has no control of its writing. If you are using a pencil, don't use the eraser. It is not made for writing.

Once, Lila Zacharov was in love with a boy with hair as black as spilled ink and eyes as dark as coffee. She would trace his name on her skin, over and over, write it in the condensation of her breath on panes of glass, scrawl it on the bottoms of her feet with the tip of her nail, like she was casting a spell.

I think of the note I found, of the press of his nibbed pen hard enough to send flecks of ink spattering as he wrote my name. Hard enough to dig through the page, maybe to scar the desk beneath. If that's what he did to the paper, I shudder to think what he wants to do to me.