Inkhorn Quotes & Sayings

These were true things, Laura knew, but they were only part of the truth which was something less orderly than Kate made it sound. Some parts of the full, disorderly truth were lodged in Kate and Laura like splinters of corroding steel. Their feelings had grown around the sharp, wounding edges which didn't hurt anymore but were still there, fossils of pain laid down in the mixed-up strata of memory. — Margaret Mahy

All the happiness and beauty that life had to offer only revealed themselves when his mind drifted off into fantasies of a world far removed from his own. — Orhan Pamuk

In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. — Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

We were never there to begin with. What we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception. — Frederick Lenz

Daniel was among the first fruits of the captivity; and this is an instance of God's judgments being so incomprehensible by us. For had there been any integrity in the whole people, surely Daniel was a remarkable example of it for Ezekiel includes him among the three just men by whom most probably God would be appeased. (Ezekiel 14:14.) — John Calvin

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind. — John Buchan

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Well, that's because they're wrong and I'm right. No more reading for you. Let's go get some ice cream."
"I don't know if the kitchen has any," Joel said. "It's hard to get in the summers, and - "
"Not from the kitchen, stupid," Melody said, rolling her eyes. "From the parlor out on Knight Street."
"Oh. I've ... never been there."
"What! That's a tragedy."
"Melody, everything is a tragedy to you."
"Not having ice cream," she proclaimed, "is the culmination of all disasters! That's it. No more discussion. We're going. Follow. — Brandon Sanderson

Never had any boy begged apples as Orlando begged paper; nor sweetmeats as he begged ink. Stealing away from talk and games, he had hidden himself behind curtains, in priest's holes, or in the cupboard behind his mother's bedroom which had a great hole in the floor and smelt horribly of starling's dung, with an inkhorn in one hand, a pen in another, and on his knee a roll of paper. — Virginia Woolf

I'm the one shot, the heir and the spare, so you have to make damn sure your one investment pays off because there's no backup. — Gayle Forman

The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies. — Paul Ormerod

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind. — Clementine Hunter

How great, I thought, to honor people while they are still alive. — Will Schwalbe

When everyone wanted to be successful, I wanted to be resourceful so that I could help everyone to be successful. — Debasish Mridha

The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in its place. Only the bravest or the most foolish of individuals would not become passive before such awe inspiring destinies. — John Ralston Saul

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere. — Herman Melville

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud! — Emilie Autumn