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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.

  • 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.

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

    Home   Glasses   Feet  
  • 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.

    Character   Eye   Cutting  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Letting Go   Pain   Rip  
    Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • [A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

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

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

  • 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.

    Nice   Proud   Kind  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

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

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

    Teacher   Rap   College  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Writing   Roots   Feet  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

    Men   Four   Way  
  • 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.

    Rooms   Used   Passing  
    J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.253, Penguin
  • I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!

    FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Jun 24, 2013
  • "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.

    Justice   Belts   Said  
  • 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.

    Funny   Humor   Asparagus  
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