Chalk Quotes

• Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

  Donald Sadoway

  Want, Professors, Best Things

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• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Graffiti

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• Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Education, Teacher

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• The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Obligation

  "I Watched Neil deGrasse Tyson Take On a Science Skeptic". Interview with Anthony Liversidge, gizmodo.com. January 20, 2017.

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• When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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• But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese.

  Rick Wakeman

  Two, Cheesy, Doubt

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• Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Lying, Thinking, Air

  Hansard 30 July 1934, col. 2339

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• All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Fashion, Purple, White

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• I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests. Faeries and vampires and whatnot -- those I can fathom. Even demons. Sometimes, even the Fallen. I can understand why they do what they do. But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea

  Jim Butcher

  Race, Ideas, People

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

  Jodi Picoult

  True Love, Love Is, Air

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• I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk.

  Rod Stewart

  Long, Looking Good, Blokes

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• There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

  Janet Frame

  Time, Past, Water

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.

  Jeff Dunham

  Facts, Shows, Bad Experiences

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Teaching, Air, Heartbreaking

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• Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!

  Bob Goff

  Mean, Grace, Score

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jul 30, 2014

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• The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as a mistake and be done with it.

  Dennis Murphy

  Horse, Mistake, Thinking

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• Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Circles, Justice, Diversity

  Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.322, Cambridge University Press

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• I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

  John J. Geddes

  Writing, Dark, Moon

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• There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.

  Dennis Miller

  Fear, People, Common Sense

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• But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.

  Jim Butcher

  Race, Ideas, People

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.154, Penguin

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• This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Wine, Sunset, Air

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• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

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• Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

  Ray Charles

  Blank, Music Is, Blackboard

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• I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

  Aaron Boone

  Home, Thinking, Play

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