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Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play. -- Jessica Brown Findlay
Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk. -- Donald Sadoway
Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges. -- Joyce Meyer
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening. -- Rachel Johnson
I chalk up the fact that I got diabetes to my body saying, 'Dude, you have been doing wrong for way too long!' -- Randy Jackson
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 could be my life's work. -- Helena Rubinstein
But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese. -- Rick Wakeman
When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
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 no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies. -- Stanley Baldwin
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score! -- Bob Goff
I was white. Chalk had more color than I did. And quite possibly more personality. -- Darynda Jones
There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water. -- Janet Frame
I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us. -- John J. Geddes
I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht. -- Justin Kirk
I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' by Brecht. -- Justin Kirk
Just as chalk can be removed from a chalkboard, with sincere repentance, the effects of our transgression can be erased through the atonement of Jesus Christ. -- Boyd K. Packer
There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain. -- Isak Dinesen
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them? -- Michel de Montaigne
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud. -- Darynda Jones
The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a either black gay or a lesbian. Chalk and cheese, they reckon, works. -- Jeremy Clarkson
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is. -- Aaron Boone
Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed -- Jodi Picoult
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper. -- Forest Whitaker
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth. -- Kenneth Keniston
Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
I was never a good-looking bloke. Not by a long chalk. -- Rod Stewart
Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience. -- Bubba Sparxxx
The British have a unique relationship with horses. They are etched into our landscape in chalk, they have been written about, painted, sung about, celebrated and gambled upon for centuries. -- Clare Balding
Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. -- Stanley Baldwin
Touring with Yes was generally great fun, and I got on well with the rest of the guys, but we were like chalk and cheese in many respects. I was unique in the band as a card-carrying Conservative. -- Rick Wakeman
For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street. -- Barry McGee
AT&T Park, chalk it up. This is a great pitcher's park, great weather. It's a great place to pitch. It's all positive and no negative. You can go out and challenge guys. I've got the confidence to attack the strike zone and not nibble so much. -- Tim Hudson
Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. -- Grace Slick
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 wardrobe. If we're going out I'll turn up at his house and say, 'I haven't got anything to wear,' and he'll tut and sigh and then lend me something swanky. -- Matthew Rhys
Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never. -- Karl G. Maeser
A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust. -- Richard Eder
I wish my days could be washed away like the chalk lines of my days. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate -- Ray Charles
Don't talk the talk, if you can't walk the walk, Phony niggaz are outlined in chalk -- Inspectah Deck
After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body. -- Joan Rivers
My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. -- Evan Sayet
There is a chalk outline slowly being drawn around common sense and most people can't identify the victim. -- Dennis Miller
I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God. -- Condoleezza Rice
People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff. -- Clive James
This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes. -- Albert Einstein
If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945 -- Mervyn Peake
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. -- George Eliot
When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show. -- Jeff Dunham
If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don't need to your imagination -- Ryohgo Narita
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
I don't think I'm good in bed. My husband never said anything, but after we made love he'd take a piece of chalk and outline my body. -- Joan Rivers
The taste of chalk. The sun lays its copper thumbs on my eyelids. The radio plays the monologue of a dog. What is the formula for tomorrow? -- Warren Heiti
The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution. -- Tobias Smollett
In the end we're all just chalk lines on the concrete Drawn only to be washed away For the time that I've been given I am what I am -- Five Finger Death Punch
Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate? -- Pittacus Lore
But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea. -- Jim Butcher
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, and preserve and cultivate its identity. -- Jane Welsh Carlyle
My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them. -- Maggie Stiefvater
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 a mistake and be done with it. -- Dennis Murphy
Okay. Now you have to move your arms and legs." "I know how to make a snow angel." "Then do it! Otherwise, you're more like a chalk outline at a police crime scene. -- Richelle Mead

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