Ink Quotes

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  Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

  Milton Friedman

  Perfectly Good, Government, Ink And Paper

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• A drop of ink may make a million think.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, May, Politician

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• 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

  Writing, Blank Mind, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.379, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

  Mark Twain

  Sad, Writing History, Historical

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.54, St. Martin's Press

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• Our lives are written in disappearing ink.

  Michelle Cliff

  Life, Disappear, Impermanence

  Michelle Cliff (1998). “The Store of a Million Items: Stories”, Mariner Books

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• Ink is the transcript of thought.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

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• I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

  Jewel

  World

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• What joy there is in hearing yourself think, and to make that thinking into ink.

  John Olsen

  Thinking, Joy, Hearing

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• A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions... think.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Millions

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

  Mark Twain

  Patriotic, Fighting, Ink And Paper

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• Don’t just think it, ink it.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Thinking

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

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Education, Book

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• But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, Men, Rorschach

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• Memory is more indelible than ink.

  Anita Loos

  Memories, Indelible

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• Don't think it, ink it.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

  Robert G. Allen, Mark Victor Hansen (2009). “Cash in a Flash: Real Money in No Time”, p.43, Crown Business

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• That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Blood, Secret, Flow

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.466, Penguin

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• The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Agents, World, Enlightening

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• Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

  Edmund Campion

  Writing, Ink And Paper, Paper

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• Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

  Harvey Mackay

  Memories, Ink And Paper, Diaries

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.

  Tom Verducci

  Kids, Hands, Grew Up

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• in black ink my love may still shine bright.

  William Shakespeare

  Shine Bright, Shining, Black

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 65.

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• I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Gambling, Risk

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• 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

  Magic, Bottles, Texture

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• A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

  Alfred Nobel

  Book, Men, Recluse

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