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Quotes About Ink

thread, but it's black.
~ Mark Twain
In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which, in our rare moments of grace, we are able to decipher a small fragment.
~ Arthur Koestler
Many red devils ran from my heart And out upon the page, They were so tiny The pen could mash them. And many struggled in the ink. It was strange To write in this red muck Of things from my heart.
~ Stephen Crane
many red devils ran from my heart and out upon the page, they were so tiny the pen could mash them. And many struggled in the ink. It was strange to write in this red much of things from my heart.
~ Stephen Crane
Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books
~ Stephen Fry
Wine can be a wiser teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.
~ Stephen Fry
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
~ Jon Anderson
astonishing array of technical gadgets for spies, including secure radios, secret ink, and even garlic-flavored chocolate—issued to spies parachuting into occupied France to ensure their breath smelled convincingly French on landing.
~ Ben Macintyre
Maurice Oldfield, the most senior spy in Britain, signed himself "C," in green ink, a practice first adopted by the founder of MI6, Mansfield Cumming, who imported it from the Royal Navy, where ships' captains customarily write in green ink.
~ Ben Macintyre
Los buenos libros son asi, capaces de resumir toda la oscuridad de la existencia en una sola gota de tinta
~ Benjamín Prado
Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.
~ bennington chester ii
That's one thing I don't want to happen is a regret getting a tat because that bad boy not going away.
~ Bradley Beal
While Sands's eyes flicker with private mirth, the evil that Tim hinted at fills my soul like a squid's ink.
~ Greg Iles
You ain't a southern gentleman till you dipped your pen in ink
~ Greg Iles
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
A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.
~ William F. DeVault
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
As a schoolboy I liked to draw the leaders of the world proletariat - especially Marx. Just start smearing an ordinary splotch of ink around and you've already got a resemblance...
~ Sergei Dovlatov
I cannot speak of the things I have seen, nor seek the comfort for the pain I feel. If I did, this nation would descend into a deeper kind of madness, or think of it's president mad. The truth, I am afraid, must live as paper and ink. Hidden and forgotten until every man named here has passed to dust.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Huge, tattooed man nodded.
~ Shannon Greenland
I like how a book feels when I turn the pages, and how the ink smells—almost like something good to eat.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Language is a terrible, cold thing, I think. One may recount an event, calmly selecting the most suitable words, that to remember without benefit of ink is almost beyond bearing. We accept the counterfeit and are thankful, for it spares us the awful weight of our lives.
~ Shelley Jackson
Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs.
~ William Shakespeare