Cigarette Quotes - Page 8

• The car is the cigarette of the future.

  Jaime Lerner

  Car

  "Billionaire cities: who could buy yours?" by Francesca Perry, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Cigarette companies market heavily to young people. They need young customers because their product kills the older ones. It is the only product that, if used as intended, kills the consumer.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humorous, People

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• Why does the thin grey strand
  Floating up from the forgotten
  Cigarette between my fingers,
  Why does it trouble me?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Doe, Floating, Forgotten

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4222, Delphi Classics

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• A high school student shouldn't smoke cigarettes. You can't comfort someone with money either. And fooling around with someone's feelings...Trying out someone when you're not even interested. That's something you deserve to get hit for.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Drama, School, Feelings

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• There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.

  Francis Lawrence

  Smoking, Green, Littles

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• He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that word filthy. I love the way you force it out of your mouth like it's some kind of vermin you want to get rid of." "You've had vermin in your mouth?" "You're mean in that way, you know. You don't let anyone get away with pathetic analogies.

  Melina Marchetta

  Mean, Trying, Analogies

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

  Frank O'Hara

  Coffee, Love You, Bed

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.371, Univ of California Press

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• It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.

  Peter Corris

  Memories, Filled In, Smoking

  Peter Corris (1987). “The January Zone: Cliff Hardy 10”, p.16, Allen & Unwin

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• Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

  Ray Comfort

  Wise, Cities, Littles

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• Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.

  Ann Patchett

  Thank God, Stopping, Stories

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• You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Interesting, Balance

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• I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the scene could easily be in London, Paris, New York of LA. My eyes are burning, my knees hurt and I hate to say it, but a certain and vital part of my nether region is beginning to smell like peanut butter. Welcome to life on tour.

  Corey Taylor

  Hurt, New York, Hate

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• Cause I'm on set, make it work, break even on 9 to 5's. Cigarettes and lotto tickets, tryna keep that grind alive

  Drake

  Break Even, Smoking, Alive

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• The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play.

  Robert Kennedy

  Air, Doors, Play

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• A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

  George Gissing

  Cigar, Hours, Vacuity

  George Gissing (1962). “George Gissing's Commonplace Book: A Manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library”

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• In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.

  Willie Nelson

  Heart, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart". Book by Willie Nelson and Turk Pipkin, May 9, 2006.

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• I love cigarettes. Love them. I think the more positive approach you have to smoking, the less harmful it is.

  Sienna Miller

  Thinking, Smoking, Stupid Celebrity

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• The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Science, Boys, Cells

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• There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the cake mixes and the detergents, and the margarines… The manufacturer who dedicates his advertising to building the most sharply defined personality for his brand will get the largest share of the market at the highest profit.

  David Ogilvy

  Beer, Cake, Differences

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.

  Cookie Mueller

  Cancer, Clothes, Worry

  Cookie Mueller (1997). “Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller”, Serpent's Tail

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• I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Sex, Mean, People

  "Did A&E do the right thing by suspending 'Duck Dynasty' star?". "The Five", www.foxnews.com. December 19, 2013.

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• Sometimes you need a cigarette. Like after you have sex with a beautiful woman or a confused young man.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Beautiful, Sex

  "Comedy Central Presents: Dave Attell". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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• As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.

  Michael Malone

  Sweet, Makeup, White

  "January Magazine", January 2002.

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• I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Long, Bed

  Source: www.complex.com

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• A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.

  Russell Brand

  People, Quitting, Heroin

  The COMPLEX Interview, www.complex.com. May 25, 2010.

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