Chalk Quotes
90 quotes by 80 authors
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that,…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk…
— Ani DiFranco
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There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim.
— Dennis Miller
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I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone…
— Karl G. Maeser
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Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
— Ani DiFranco
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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the…
— Sylvia Plath
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Me and my friend Ioan Gruffudd are like chalk and cheese when it comes to clothes. He lives for his clothes and has an amazing…
— Matthew Rhys
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in…
— Raymond Chandler
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All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States…
— Helena Rubinstein
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The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up as…
— Dennis Murphy
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Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of…
— Cornell Woolrich
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I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put…
— Pete Newell
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When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with…
— Bruno Munari
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The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and…
— John Updike
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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
— Mark Twain
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Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
— Clive James
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Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a…
— Heidi Julavits
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Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!
— Bob Goff
Who Wrote These Chalk Quotes
80 authors contributed a total of 90 Chalk Quotes, led by these top contributors: