Smears Cannot Be Made Quotes

#1. Stop whining. You're not a victim. You're a victor.

Eric Thomas

#2. Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

Comte De Lautreamont

#3. He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

Victor Hugo

#4. If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches..

Mike DeWine

#5. My disease is a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, called disautonomic mitochondrial myopathy.

Mattie Stepanek

#6. A change is as good as a rest.

Winston S. Churchill

#7. I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

Anne McCaffrey

#8. When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

Julius Erving

#9. The blood that pooled around the needle's point reminded him of the smears he'd made on his beautiful angel's face. He'd touched Livia with his craziness and left a mark.

Debra Anastasia

#10. Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have ever undertaken, and I have a master's degree in art history.

Sarah Vowell

#11. Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.

Anthony Horowitz

#12. Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.

John Updike

#13. That night, I thanked God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. I also promised that if some way I could get home again, I would find a nice peaceful town and spend the rest of my life in peace.

Richard Winters