Inkwell Quotes

#1. Ray kept well away from the shed. He hated the loony gestures of the furniture, its bossiness, the way Maxine would shape a table to enclose the sitter at it, trapping him like a baby in a high chair or a school boy at his inkwell.

Helen Garner

#2. May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!

Nikos Kazantzakis

#3. But how do I get to having to write a book? ... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!

Robert Musil

#4. I have offered myself to the inkwell of the wordsmith that I might be shaped into new terms of being.

Saul Williams

#5. Oh God." I blink at the mirror. "It looks like I've been vomited on by an inkwell.

Stephanie Perkins

#6. Startled, I accidently knock over my inkwell. A black tsunami of ink sprawls out across the page, engulfing the tiny village of my words. They are swept away into the midnight sea. Gone forever. I am bereft.

Danger Slater

#7. I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.

Scott Turow

#8. Danglars was one of those calculating men who are born with a pen behind their ear and an inkwell instead of a heart.

Alexandre Dumas

#9. I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love of any soul, if, out of sentiment, we must give it, I might as well lavish it on the smallness of an inkwell as on the grand indifference of the stars.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. A country can't love you. At most it may need you. It's much the same as people.

Andre Brink

#11. To win you've got to stay in the game.

Claude M. Bristol

#12. Life was about making choices. Making mistakes was how you learnt.

Poppy Inkwell

#13. Three things happened in 1945. Daddy went missing, Annie started wetting the bed, and the Lester girl sang about Hitler in the middle of Sunday service.

Sarina Adeline

#14. My soul, I've found, has puppet strings
to make me droop or give me wings.
And music is the puppeteer
that turns my ear to hear.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#15. What are you thinking, Dean? What do you want?" I whispered as his eyes drifted from my lips then to my eyes. He kept his hands in his pockets as he inched forward.
"What you promised me,

Kate Stewart

#16. Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.

Michael Jackson

#17. If she squinted, she could almost see the glint of water that was Darling Harbour. If she had been a real-estate agent, she most definitely would have.

Poppy Inkwell

#18. I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#19. It is one of the Laws of the Universe that when you need a big hole to swallow you up, it is never there.

Poppy Inkwell

#20. Don't ever be scared to dream because everything is possible, no matter how bizarre. I was and still am a dreamer and that's what made me become the person I am today

Jared Leto

#21. I approach every film I do in the same way, whether it's an action film or not an action film. I guess if a certain physicality lends itself to action, but I started acting before I reached puberty. I was 7 years old when I started acting. It wasn't until I became a bouncer in New York ...

Vin Diesel

#22. I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.

Penelope Cruz

#23. Because, as any English-speaking tourist will tell you, if you speak slow enough, loud enough, and maintain good eye contact, eventually they'll understand.

Poppy Inkwell

#24. Prometheus: Yes, I stopped mortals from foreseeing their doom.
Chorus: What cure did you discover for that sickness?
Prometheus: I sowed in them blind hopes.

David Grene

#25. In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own rock band, I played bass and sang. I was one of those kids who really enjoyed being with my friends and doing rather insane, but fun, creative things.

Roger Bart

#26. Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.

Christopher Moore

#27. People often ignore injustices for the sake of Not Getting Involved; too afraid of Making Matters Worse. Not realising matters are made far worse because of it.

Poppy Inkwell

#28. The children of the night; what sweet music they make...when they're in tune!

Solomon J. Inkwell

#29. Personally, I like one hand preacher curls with dumbbells. You don't have to do 100 pound dumbbells to get a burn. Heck I can do 35- 45 dumbbells and get something out of it. It's also great for guys that travel. It's the one piece of equipment that most hotels always have.

Phil Heath