Smudged Roots Quotes & Sayings

I was good at art - always good at art. — Robert Barry

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life. — Chiang Kai-shek

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another. — Bubba Sparxxx

There's certain things that you cannot cross, no matter who you are, what you're doing or where you're coming from. — Wladimir Klitschko

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment ... — Edgar Allan Poe

Was it possible to ever really know anyone, or was I simply the worst judge of character in all of history? — Mary E. Pearson

There is nothing like moderation. — Lao-Tzu

Einstein theorized that time travel was possible, but he was looking at it as unidirectional, going forward. Traveling into the past is much more problematic, as countless stories have demonstrated! — Kelley Armstrong

I made a resolution in 2010 to stop drinking Diet Coke, and I haven't had Diet Coke since then. I think it was the best life change I've ever made, because I drank quite a lot of it. — Nick Jonas

Preparing Zomick's recipes makes me focus. On weighing the sugar, sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious. — Zomick's Bakery

Ka was the essence of teh person: spirit, intelligence, feelings and passions, humor, grudges, annoying television theme songs, all the things that make a person a person and not a nematode. — Mary Roach

When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus. — Alice Dreger

I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter. — David Levithan

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing. — Kiera Cass