Sandpaper Quotes

#1. Papa grinned and pointed at the girl. "Book, sandpaper, pencil," he ordered her, "and accordion!" once she was already gone. Soon, they were on Himmel Street, carrying the words, the music, the washing.

Markus Zusak

#2. Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

Peter Selgin

#3. Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. A brick could be used like sandpaper, to smooth out a cat's rough tongue.

Jarod Kintz

#5. 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

#6. Oh, I have just had an idea - after tea I shall attack myself with sandpaper.

Dodie Smith

#7. 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

#8. The beanstalk felt like sandpaper".

Sarah Beth Durst

#9. As soon as I saw him again I could forget all this existed; I would be calm. Was that a definition of love: a force that can drug you with calm and help you forget all the sandpaper realities of the world?

Alix Ohlin

#10. Never had he kissed lips so soft. He had not known that there were lips so soft in the whole world. Her tongue, though, was sandpaper-rough as it slipped against his. - Who are you? he asked.

Neil Gaiman

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

Joel Osteen

#12. Introverts crave meaning, so party chitchat feels like sandpaper to our psyche.

Diane Cameron

#13. My compassion was not dissimilar to gliding sandpaper over your ass.

Santino Hassell

#14. 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

#15. Rejection was like sandpaper. His skin sloughed away under its constant onslaught. After a while, Samuel wasn't sure which would last long: himself or his dreams.

Nicola Yoon

#16. it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin.

Nicci French

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

Ram Dass

#18. It's better to consider someone as Sandpaper who has hurt you over and over.. In spite of all the scratches and pain, you'll be all shiny and polished while they'll end up useless..

Anonymous

#19. 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

#20. Home. The word still tastes like sandpaper in my mouth. But it makes Mom smile - a tired, true smile - so it's worth it.

Victoria Schwab

#21. Good drama should sandpaper the mind.

Shana Alexander

#22. I had a dream about you. Your skin was sandpaper and your armpits were hollow, filled with dark chocolate and prunes. You offered me coffee and when I said no you handed me black coffee with a note that read "12 reasons not to drink coffee". I knew we would get along.

Melody Sohayegh

#23. I said evenly, "Loving's low-tech. Usually he uses sandpaper and alcohol on sensitive parts of the body. Doesn't sound too bad but it works real well." I

Jeffery Deaver

#24. 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

#25. The way of the truthful-by-nature is as a bicycle race in a pair of sandpaper underpants, but William clung to an indisputable fact.

Terry Pratchett

#26. 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

#27. I've slipped enough times over the years to know the peril of a too-smooth sole, so every time I buy a new pair, I take a pair of scissors or a piece of sandpaper to the bottoms to roughen them up. In my catwalk days, I even used to spit on the soles of shoes before I ventured down the runway.

Marie Helvin

#28. In college, I was a cartoonist at 'The Daily Northwestern.' So I draw myself. I was an animator. But basically, I went to Northwestern to major in English, wound up in college for two years. Studied animation there. Came to Disney. My first week at Disney was the week that 'Star Wars' came out.

John Musker

#29. It's not those who are handsome we love, but those we love who are handsome.

Leo Tolstoy

#30. Educate every child.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.

Willie Stargell

#32. Love was a desire to cling to something difficult to get hold of in day-to-day life. It needed more attention and dedication, not always pleasurable, she concluded. Sensuality was by far easy, like food.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya