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“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.”

Trying Made Wanted School Girl Stuff Sports Hair Academic Uniforms Strict Ink Volleyball Nun Dip Other Girl Elementary School Sandpaper

Author:Zosia Mamet

“Good drama should sandpaper the mind.”

Should Mind Drama Theater Good Drama Sandpaper

Book:Talking woman

Source: Talking woman

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

People Sometimes Use Difficult Edges Rough Negative People People In Your Life Betterment Rough Edges Difficult Relationship Sandpaper

Author:Joel Osteen

“God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.”

Ifs God Religion Sun Sea Sandpaper

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“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.”

Ifs Turns Amount Method Tables Chairs Usability Sandpaper

Author:Alan Cooper

“Everything is mediated. Everything is influenced by its maker. And happily, right? I'm so happy everyone leaves fingerprints on things whether they like it or not. Fingerprints solve crimes. They're profound. They're your best and worst friend and you were born with them and you can't get away from them without a lot of pain and sandpaper.”

Pain Born Worst Crime Profound Solve Get Away Makers Fingerprints Sandpaper

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“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.”

Way Faces Voice Listening Radio Print Apologizing I Apologize Sandpaper

Author:Frank Luntz

“Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.”

Doe Suffering Incarnation Sandpaper

Book:One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

“It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.”

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae”

Littles Said Faces Sleep Watches Special Fronts Stones Decided Oil Shoulders Passing Passings Block Up And Down Blanket Tissues Lumps Watch Me Mae Sandpaper

Author:Sarah Rees Brennan

“I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.”

Found Difficult Levels Cat Cheeks Sandpaper

Book:Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh

Source: Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh

“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.”

Ifs Body Sides Sun Sea Despair Stones Fingers Slaughterhouses Mutton Sandpaper

Book:El Asesino y otros poemas

Source: El Asesino y otros poemas

“Her voice was as rough as sandpaper. As long as Blomkvist lived, he would never forget her face as she went on the attack. Her teeth were bared like a beast of prey. Her eyes were glittering, black as coal. She moved with the lightning speed of a tarantula and seemed totally focus on her prey as she swung the club again, striking Martin in the ribs.”

Long Eye Faces Black Voice Forget Focus Moved Clubs Speed Teeth Beast Rough Never Forget Lightning Her Eyes Coal Prey Ribs Sandpaper Tarantulas

Author:Steig Larsson

“When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.”

“Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.”

“I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.”

Source: What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems