Quotes having the keyword Ink
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.
by Jeane Kirkpatrick (born in 1926) topics: Politics keywords: administration, bit, blot, bureaucrats, democrat, differently, ink, intellectual, made, man, may, republican, talked, woman , world My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
by Pierre Loti (born in 1850) keywords: always, attention, blots, books, covered, draws, full, his, idly, ink, pictures, sketches, smeared, stained, task, wanders, were , which I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
by Amy Lowell (born in 1874) keywords: against, alone, am, beloved, drops, fire, great, heart, here, ink, into, little, moon, posting, squeezing, tired, under , want My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
by Ernst Mach (born in 1838) keywords: brightly, broken, daily, dimly, ink, legs, lighted, may, now, part, polished, receive, remains, repaired, replaced, stain, table, temperature, varies, which , write I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.
by Marcel Marceau (born in 1923) keywords: anguish, appears, backgrounds, black, designed, destiny, drawings, endless, gleams, his, ink, labyrinth, light, lost, man, shadow, shed, some, startled, style, thread, tried , white To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative.
by Nicholas Mosley (born in 1923) keywords: absolute, because, becomes, blot, ink, into, nothing, poem, put, relative, say, saying, totally , yet 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.
by Vladimir Nabokov (born in 1899) keywords: become, being, blank, feeling, ink, invisible, miraculous, pages, still, visible, words , written The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
by George Orwell (born in 1903) keywords: aims, between, clear, declared, enemy, exhausted, gap, great, idioms, ink, insincerity, instinctively, language, long, out, real, turns, were , words 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.
by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (born in 1888) keywords: bottle, colour, ink, magical, merely, pen, point, produce, seeing, something, texture , tone After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
by Jack Prelutsky (born in 1940) keywords: accompany, after, came, creatures, decided, dozen, drawings, evening, hours, idea, ink, needed, notion, pen, poems, produce, produced, still, them, these, took, two, verses , where My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.
by Fred Saberhagen (born in 1930) keywords: available, books, certainly, feeling, forms, going, gut, ink, long, now, other, paper, quantities, substantial, though, time, us , yet How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
by Olive Schreiner (born in 1855) keywords: anything, fools, hard, how, imbecile, ink, look, make, paint, paper, them, thoughts , your I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it's marked by the blood of those who died defending it.
by John Thune (born in 1961) keywords: believe, blood, cloth, defending, died, flag, freedom, history, ink, just, liberty, marked, more, nation, our, recognized, stands, symbol, than, those , universally It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
by Horace Walpole (born in 1717) keywords: dots, duchess, her, ink, never, old, over, puts, said, sarah, save , she
