Cuttlefish Ink Quotes & Sayings

Genes are the petri dish of the Soul — Carol Ostrouch

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen. — Philip Yancey

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. 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 spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. — George Orwell

John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed. — Brian Kilmeade

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making. — Geoff Mulgan

I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me. — Teddy Pendergrass

I've always had a very broad taste in music. — Paul Wardingham

Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy. — Ernest Holmes

I suppose Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals and birds, all play their part, both in mythology and in everyday worship. This harmony is most evident in these remote places, where gods and mountains co-exist. Tungnath, as yet unspoilt by a materialistic society, exerts its magic on all who come here with open mind and heart. — Ruskin Bond

Even rock stars are entitled to privacy. — Michael Novak

Milton on speed. I am going to need about a decade to think about that. That delay in syntax, the putting off of the click of the sentence into itself, is something that has always intrigued me. I love the emotional effect of it, and never want it to be merely a gesture. Sometimes I try it and it doesn't work, so I have to put the poem aside, and try again, more simply and more strange. — Matthew Zapruder

If one of the little Pontellier boys took a tumble whilst at play, he was not apt to rush crying to his mother's arms for comfort; he would more likely pick himself up, wipe the water out of his eyes and the sand out of his mouth, and go on playing. — Kate Chopin

He belongs to himself, as each person does from the day they are born until their last day. — Melinda O'Donnell

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes. — Mark McGwire

I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected. — Jill Stein

Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.' — Chris Evans

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. — John Ray

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. — George Orwell