Jim Starlin

There's a character, Eon, I did back in the 'Captain Marvel' story. Eon came from a greasy smudge on a paper bag inside my kitchen being used for garbage. I went and got a paper and pencil, drew it up, and he became a character in that story. Things come from everywhere.

American Artist

Amelia Warner

The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

English Actress

Mark Hunt

I always remember my dad's blue overalls and the blue overcoat he wore in winter, and I remember my mum's big old Afro. Sometimes, though, in my memories, smudges have replaced their faces.

New Zealander Athlete

Gerard Butler

Choosing the right mask helps you... We went through many masks. It was very particular leather that as soon as you smudged it, you had to get a new one. We went through about 55 masks.

Scottish Actor

Laurie Graham

Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.

English Journalist

Leonard Susskind

Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.

American Physicist

Betsy Brandt

I don't wear a lot of makeup, but I live by Benefit's They're Real! mascara. I wear it on the red carpet because it doesn't smudge - and I always smudge!

American Actress

J. R. R. Tolkien

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

English Novelist

David Letterman

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

American Comedian

Monica

Smudge your eyeliner. It creates a smoky effect.

American Musician

Refers to marks made accidentally, often annoying and unwanted.

Unintentional Marks

A smudge usually suggests a lack of clarity or neatness on a surface.

Visual Clarity

Smudging involves spreading or blurring something by rubbing.

Rubbing Action

When you smudge something like makeup, it no longer looks perfect.

Imperfection

Smudging as a ceremony is specific to certain cultures, especially indigenous North American.

Cultural Practice

Emphasizes the purification aspect, believed to clear negative energy.

Spiritual Cleansing

The action verb 'smudge' here refers to using smoke as a spiritual tool.

Ritualistic Tool

The act of smudging is often performed with positive intentions for well-being.

Positive Intent

 like this has been a very common history for a lot of areas around the globe. For the US, which is our focus, because we're right here smack dab in the middle of the United States, it's really important to understand the history because the US did a really good job of smudging its history a little bit. So if you're going through high school,

Sean Sherman: Why aren't...

 Not only that, he's left-handed. Have you noticed this? How many people here are left-handed? You see, a lot of the people that I most admire, they're great artists, great designers, great thinkers, they're left-handed. And somebody said to me last night, you know, being left-handed, you have to learn to write without smudging the ink.

Rory Bremner's one-man...

 massive keel quite big for a bird that size I've never seen a pigeon skeleton before it's at that rate I really used to see no it was much smudge here I think I first looked at it I thought that's not quite right is it but then actually when you look at smells look yeah it's right down there yeah really

Slow Motion Pigeon...

 They spliced a 22-character message into a long strand of DNA and surrounded it with specific genetic markers. They then hid the DNA over a period in a type-written letter with only a small smudge to give the location away. They mailed the letter back to themselves.

Is DNA the future of...

 when it came to these tattoos, until I started doing them out in the big, wide world. People still come to me with these really strange pink smudges where their nipple should be. And this is what's left over from micropigmentation. This is the fading tattoo.

The Restorative Power of...

 It was likely just a glass or tin drop varnished to look like a pearl. This mirage of wealth is mirrored in the painting itself. In greater context, the pearl appears round and heavy, but a detailed view shows that it's just a floating smudge of paint.

Why is Vermeer's "Girl...

 which is not a little ball bouncing off a wall. It's a wave that has a certain probability of being able to permeate through a solid wall, like a phantom leaping through to the other side. You can see a faint smudge of light in the right-hand box.

How Quantum Biology...

 How many stars do you think are behind it? Ten, twenty? Guess again. If you looked at that thumbnail-sized patch of sky with the Hubble Space Telescope, instead of points of light, you'd see smudges. These aren't stars.

How do we study the...

 Nations people who lived here for hundreds of years as really important to me and they chose to do that with smudging ceremony which gave me the blessing to be here and

Escape to the Stunning...

 the board here we go okay now moment of truth there we go ah no actually hey wait a second guys that's not bad I mean I definitely left some smudgy smudge on