Chalky Quotes

#1. When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front that hums and bisects both your ears, making eyes very alert. The light bends toward chalky blue. Your skin aches. At last: something real.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. In the chalky trough under the blackboard
are lessons dusted and already forgotten.
The teacher is squawking away once more,
scratching into the dark Welsh tabula rasa
the truths so far about God and arithmetic
with the expungible white of fossil shells.

Richie McCaffery

#3. Babies weren't babies - they were land mines; bear traps; wasp nests. They were a noise, which was sometimes even not a noise, but merely a listening for a noise; they were a damp, chalky smell; they were the heaving, jerky, sticky manifestation of not-sleep.

Kelly Link

#4. I don't like anything that looks gelatinous - really weirds me out. But when I was a kid, I used to get very, very upset if anything had a kind of chalky texture; like, certain kinds of cottage cheese I know have a weird chalkiness.

Roz Chast

#5. Snowy, milky, chalky. A color that is the absence of color. Every morning he ties his shoes, packs newspaper inside his coat as insulation against the cold, and begins interrogating the world.

Anthony Doerr

#6. You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.

Joyelle McSweeney

#7. A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. The writers we absorb when we're young bind us to them, sometimes lightly, sometimes with iron. In time, the bonds fall away, but if you look very closely you can sometimes make out the pale white groove of a faded scar, or the telltale chalky red of old rust.

Daniel Mendelsohn

#9. You're mine," he breathed against my neck when his lips left mine to travel lower. "Forever. Say it." "I'm yours," I swore, the words ragged from passion. "Forever. Now, take me and prove it.

Jeaniene Frost

#10. It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

Felix Adler

#12. The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind ... From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.

Georges Bataille

#13. Being held down and secured just made me all the harder. I'll probably be speaking in tongues by the time this is over.

John Ellison

#14. The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

Adrian Cronauer

#15. While he may forget that he is Caesar, I never forget that I am Caesar's daughter.

Tom Holland

#16. He's like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn't get what he wanted.

Nathan Hill

#17. God used it all. He used the hard times to draw her closer. He used the struggle to bring them together.

Chris Fabry

#18. Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

Thomas A Kempis

#19. The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.

John Steinbeck

#20. I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.

Nicole Beharie

#21. Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. There is really nothing you gain from being a pauper rather you loose every thing.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#23. My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.

China Mieville