Sandpaper Quotes

• When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

  Chris Colfer

  Inspirational, Bullying, Hurt

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• Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.

  Joel Osteen

  Rough Edges, People, Use

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• Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

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  Ram Dass

  Suffering, Doe, Incarnation

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.79, Harmony

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• Everything is mediated. Everything is influenced by its maker. And happily, right? I'm so happy everyone leaves fingerprints on things whether they like it or not. Fingerprints solve crimes. They're profound. They're your best and worst friend and you were born with them and you can't get away from them without a lot of pain and sandpaper.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Pain, Profound, Crime

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

  Alan Cooper

  Tables, Chairs, Method

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• It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Honesty, Kids

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.92, Anchor

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• By the way, for those who are listening, I absolutely define - I have a face for radio. Unfortunately, I've got a voice for print. So I apologize for the sandpaper you're listening to.

  Frank Luntz

  Voice, Listening, Radio

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". Interview with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Cat, Levels, Found

  R. L. LaFevers (2011). “Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Block, Sleep, Oil

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• Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Mind, Should

  Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”

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• God went out of me
  as if the sea dried up like sandpaper,
  as if the sun became a latrine.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Sea, Religion

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dream, Children, Pain

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• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Sports, Volleyball

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.

  Marge Piercy

  Dream, Eye, Moon

  Marge Piercy (2013). “What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems”, p.69, Knopf

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• God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

  Anne Sexton

  Sea, Despair, Body

  Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.101, Icaria Editorial

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• This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Dust, Piano

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.85

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• Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.

  Steig Larsson

  Eye, Voice, Long

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• You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils
  as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding
  hundred dollar bills.

  Herb Caen

  Rams, Dollar Bills, Dollars

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