Chalkboard Quotes

#1. I'm a chalkboard that's been erased over and over again until there's nothing left but a haze of white dust. Before this I never understood how long an hour could take, how many ticks of the second hand are in a minute, how endless the space between seconds can be.

Sarah McCarry

#2. Then there was your voice
Like a windup tin toy
Like the sweetest nails on a chalkboard
That I ever heard

Michelle Dalton

#3. 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

#4. Out this way there was the lonely last pub, the Castle, which now had an angry chalkboard sign up that said "drinkers welcome" to indicate its dissatisfaction with other establishments' fads like pub quizzes, bands, food, and, presumably, conversation.

Paul Cornell

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. "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

#8. He reminded me of the typical soap-opera star. His words were fake, his smile was fake, and his very presence affected me like nails on a chalkboard.

Jamie McGuire

#9. His laugh was like nails to a chalkboard. "I cannot remember a time when anything was new to me. I only ever see the tattered remains of what once was.

Diantha Jones

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

Glenn Beck

#11. The sky above the buildings outside their apartment windows is the color of a dusty chalkboard, and the light coming down onto the street is exactly the color of boredom.

Jennifer Egan

#12. I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard!

Hugh Jackman

#13. As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.

Joyce Rachelle

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

Warren Farrell

#15. 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

#16. A vision flashed across Nick's mind. It was the image of a lipstick kiss his wife left for him on the mirror that morning. It hung there like the single digit sum to the chalkboard-crammed equation of his life.

Gary Ponzo

#17. Ever heard someone's voice and it sounded like nails on a chalkboard? I finally know what that feels like.

April Mae Monterrosa

#18. I had a dream about you. It happened during the day. You used a pencil to erase the ink I wrote over the chalkboard since the professor told me 7 + 4 didn't equal 10. You were really cool about it; in fact, you handed me a bucket of ice. Apparently I needed to chill out.

Melody Sohayegh

#19. I had a professor in college who returned our graded essays, walked up to the chalkboard, and wrote in huge letters: "SO WHAT?" She threw the piece of chalk down and said, "Ask yourself that every time you turn in a piece of writing." It's a lesson I never forgot.

Austin Kleon

#20. Then Glenn Beck burned to death on his Internet program, right in front of his chalkboard, burned so hot his glasses fused to his face, and after that most of the news was less about who did it and more about how not to catch it.

Joe Hill

#21. I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

John Darnielle

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

MC Paul Barman

#23. Here is a quote I used to post on the chalkboard once and a while for my students:

Education is not going to fall out of a tree and bonk you on the head -like an apple- you have to dig for it, much like digging for Gold...

Miles Cobbett

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

Candy Chang

#25. My sister's voice is Minnie Mouse and a dash of fingernails down a chalkboard, but only when she wants to bend me to her will.

Alex Adams

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard - almost painful.

Adrianne Brooks