Chalk Dust Quotes

#1. The chalk dust was everywhere. On her pants. All over her shirt. She looked like she'd fallen into a vat of 1980s eye shadow. It had mixed with her hand sweat and formed a kind of Smurf epoxy.

Chelsea Cain

#2. Scratch the surface, and there's just more surface - chalk dust under your nails, but not much else. What you see, as they say, is what you get.

Laura Kasischke

#3. His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance.

Stephen King

#4. Why she hankered to be a teacher, I couldn't tell you. But she had chalk dust in her veins, and she deserved to get that certificate. It was only fair.

Richard Peck

#5. A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.

Richard Eder

#6. There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

Winston Churchill

#7. Life Is Too Short--So Kiss Slowly,
Laugh Insanely, Love Truly,
And Live With Passion.

Andy Vogt

#8. I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.

Henry Miller

#9. Thinking you're not in trouble and not being in trouble are two different things.

Craig Johnson

#10. Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.

Conrad Black

#11. Whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

Agnes Repplier

#12. I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

Nancy Reagan

#13. Unfortunately, here as elsewhere on this touching planet, imitation is the watchword and prestige the highest ambition.

J.D. Salinger

#14. The fine tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design.

Edward Robert Harrison

#15. I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.

Anne Tyler

#16. The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.

Dr. John

#17. When I auditioned for '21 Jump Street,' it was a last minute thing. I had one of the worst flus that I've ever experienced in my life, and I was forced to go to the audition, the screen test.

Johnny Depp

#18. What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

Audrey Niffenegger

#19. I remind myself that I'm no longer a damsel in distress. I can think this through. What I can't do? Base my decision on fear. Because, while I might be free to make my choice right now, I'll never be free from the consequences of that choice

Gena Showalter