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Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch. -- Fred Armisen
I can't stand the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard! -- Hugh Jackman
In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. -- Warren Farrell
By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards. -- Glenn Beck
[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways. -- Candy Chang
I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward. -- MC Paul Barman
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you. -- Sloane Crosley
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
If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser. -- Sloane Crosley

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