Smahane Quotes & Sayings

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none. — Margaret Weis

I should have known I'd find you out here, doing your best to turn yourself into an icicle — Cassandra Clare

Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest. — Todd Stocker

You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people worse off and we can surely spare a little from what we have. — Frank McCourt

The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite. — Clive Barker

In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can. — Abel Aganbegyan

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not. — Charles Bukowski

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science. — Robert A. Heinlein

I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. — Lysander Spooner

Twenty minutes later, I walk out of Melinda's hotel with a plate of finger sandwiches, a bag of prostitute clothes, and a weird wedge on my head that makes me look like you could tip me upside down and fill it with cream of mushroom.
I need another donut. — Cyn Balog

The more I make the more I can give away. — Yvon Chouinard

Well ... maybe I can sneak out for a few minutes," Bird said, lowering his voice. And then Greg heard him shout to his mother: "It's no one, Ma! I'm talking to no one!"
Boy, that's quick thinking! Greg thought sarcastically. He's a worse liar than I am.
And then he heard Bird call to his mom: "I know I'm on the phone. But I'm not talking to anyone. It's only Greg."
Thanks a lot, pal, Greg thought. — R.L. Stine

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart. — Ray Lewis

As human beings, we haven't lost our intuition; we just stopped paying attention — Heidi DuPree