Chalkboards Quotes

• I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Asparagus

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• I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.

  Grey DeLisle

  Voice, Sound, Nails

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• Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Jesus, Atonement, Christ

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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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• Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.

  Fred Armisen

  Nice, Proud, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Sound, Nails

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• In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.

  Neal Stephenson

  Writing, Roots, Feet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• "I am not just another notch on your belt?" she asked him. "Of course not." he said as he put a mark on the chalkboard.

  Jay Leno

  Justice, Belts, Said

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• I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!

  Hugh Jackman

  Sound, Fingernails, I Can

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 24, 2013

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• [A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

  Candy Chang

  Motivation, Inspiration, Knowing

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• My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, School, Kids

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• I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
  I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

  MC Paul Barman

  Teacher, Rap, College

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• Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future.

  Ricky Martin

  Dream, Writing, Everyday

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• I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

  Sloane Crosley

  Travel, Thinking, Phones

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• If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.

  Sloane Crosley

  Home, Glasses, Feet

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• By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

  Glenn Beck

  Men, Four, Way

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• Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me.

  Jodi Picoult

  Letting Go, Pain, Rip

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

  J.R. Ward

  Rooms, Used, Passing

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.253, Penguin

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• To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

  Adrienne Rich

  Dream, Memories, Writing

  Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Chalk

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

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• My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.

  Marco Roth

  Dog, Loneliness, Writing

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• Whenever I get distracted or bored, my eyes wander over to that chalkboard and I read the words. Some of them grow on me, and others annoy me. I attack the latter with eraser and chalk, and keep nudging at them until I like the way they look and sound. Others never make the cut at all and simply get erased. Perhaps one day I will sell these on eBay to RPG players who need names for characters or alien races.

  Neal Stephenson

  Character, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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