Cigarette Quotes - Page 11

• On TV you can, you know you can cram, you know, 30 people into a closet and have an orgy, and then they can all shoot up, and everybody has cigarettes in their nostrils and their ears. They don't care. So yeah, television is amazing right now.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  People, Care, Tvs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

  Charles Kennedy

  Essentials, Accepting, Should

  "The New Statesman Interview - Charles Kennedy". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.newstatesman.com. Januray 29, 2011.

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• A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, Children, Home

  "Katherine Heigl Gets Real". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Grateful, Years, Eggs

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• I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Play, People

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• James often wondered at the chain of flukes it must have taken to bring him through with his own life and limbs intact. Once he might have believed it to be the work of Providence but it seemed to him now that to thank God for his life would be to suggest God had shrugged off all the others flicked them away like cigarette butts by the thousands and that seemed like abominable conceit. James Dorsey took no credit for being alive. His higher power these days was Chance.

  Laini Taylor

  Taken, Thank God, Would Be

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• I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the truck, leaving her standing there. She blinked her eyes, and slowly a smile stretched her lips. She strolled to the truck and got in. "So, are you homicidal or merely as irritable as a wounded buffalo?" "About halfway in between," he said through clenched teeth. "Anything I can do to help?" His eyes were narrow and intense. "It isn't just the cigarettes. Take off your panties and lock your legs around me, and I'll show you.

  Linda Howard

  Eye, Smoking, Leaving

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• Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Drug, Nerves, Tools

  Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beach, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

  Leonard Cohen

  Makeup, Years, Doe

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• Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

  Paul MacCready

  Grandchildren, Environmental, Society

  "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.

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• After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

  William J. Clinton

  Cancer, Air, Years

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1762, Best Books on

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• My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.

  Chris Abani

  Mom, Brother, War

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 22, 2014.

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• Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.

  Kate Moss

  Space, Bob, Rooms

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Heart, Mean, Night

  Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin

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• When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.

  Rory Sutherland

  Motivation, Inspiration, Philosopher

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• My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

  Richelle Mead

  Vampire Academy, Show Me, Shows

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.444, Penguin

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• The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Light, Air

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• There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.

  Markus Zusak

  People, Paid

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.94, RH Childrens Books

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• Each civilization may choose one of two roads to travel, that is, either fret itself to death, or pet itself to death. And in the course of doing one or the other, it eats its way into the Universe, turning cinders and flinders of stars into toilet seats, pegs, gears, cigarette holders and pillowcases, and it does this because, unable to fathom the Universe, it seeks to change that Fathomlessness into Something Fathomable.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Stars, Two, Civilization

  "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age". Book by Stanisław Lem, translated by Michael Kandel. "Tale of the Three Storytelling Machines of King Genius", §10, 1974.

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• Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

  Tennessee Williams

  Light, Elbows, Charm

  Tennessee Williams (1999). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• Poirot said placidly, “One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – ” he tapped his egg-shaped head – “this, that functions!

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Eggs, Doe

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Five Little Pigs (Poirot)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.

  Pink

  Motherhood, Color, Missing

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• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, People, Liberty

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nobody would ever convince me that the bronchitis and pneumonia were caused by cigarettes.

  Barbara Warren

  Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Convince

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