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Quotes About Ink

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
~ Milton Friedman
Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
~ Henry de Montherlant
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.
~ Mark Strand, Selected Poems
How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
~ Steven Wright
Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.
~ Euginia Herlihy
Don't buy new ink cartridges, take old ones to Costco and get them filled for only $10!
~ James Wilson
Hey," he was saying, "guess what the most common word is in criminal tattoos." "I have no idea." " Love . Hands down. They love their mothers, they love some girl, they love Jesus. And they keep right on doing wrong.
~ Janet Dailey
I want to gather up all the ink cartridges in the universe, because somewhere, mixed in with all that ink, is the next great American novel. And I'd love nothing more than to drink it.
~ Jarod Kintz
I've got a Kanji symbol on my shoulder; it's for my son and means 'strength and power.' I have my son and daughter's names, Dominik and Aalyah, written on the inside of the left and right biceps, too.
~ Rey Mysterio
History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the elements of the original flower, they cannot show us how it looked blooming in the field. The color and fragrance - the true reality - or the flowers are gone.
~ Rex Alan Smith
cyan, magenta, yellow and black
~ Rian Hughes
My writing tools were my most precious belongings. My best quill pen was made from a raven's feather . . . I was often so poor that I could not pay my mantua-maker, but I always invested in the best ink and parchment. I smoothed it with pumice stone till it was as white and fine as my own skin, ready to absorb the rapid scratching of my quill
~ Kate Forsyth
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
~ Tom Peters
I got more than a thing for you, tattoo wit a ink for you right over my heart girl, I'll do the unthinkable.
~ Drake
But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, And mine that I was proud on--mine so much That I myself was to myself not mine, Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again, And salt too little which may season give To her foul tainted flesh!
~ William Shakespeare
The entire plan was there in shimmering hot pink ink. "It looks like a My Little Pony murder plot," Mary Alice said. "Jesus, is that glitter?" "I like it," Natalie said loyally. "I find it hard to take us seriously as agents of vengeance when our plot looks like a kindergarten craft project.
~ Deanna Raybourn
And once again, that high, domed sky makes me feel a wide vista of emotion, and once again I could weep at an overturned chair or a torn page, or today, Larry's scruffy beard and the ink on his fingers that I can see from here.
~ Deb Caletti
Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.
~ Debasish Mridha
We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.
~ Jean Genet
Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.' 'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.
~ Jean-Christophe Valtat
There was something about the smell of bookshops that was strangely comforting to her. She wondered if it was the scent of ink and paper or the perfume of binding, string, and glue. Maybe it was the scent of knowledge. Information. Thoughts and ideas. Poetry and love. All of it bound into one perfect, calm place.
~ Alyson Richman
Un libro cruje cuando lo abres, como una galleta, y los negros regueros de tinta, sobre el frágil papel, despiden un olor sutil y sabroso, semejante al de ciertas frutas livianas.
~ Roald Dahl
Since the Unistat primates, like other domesticated hominids, did not know they were primates, all this was explained by a ferocious amount of ink excretions invoking Morality and Ideology, the twin gods of domesticated primatedom.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
...got the ink as a constant symbol of what I fight for and of what I have to live for.
~ Megan Mitcham, Justice Mine