Smoke Quotes - Page 28

• There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

  John Lyly

  Fire, Arise

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.120, Manchester University Press

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• I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

  Bill Hicks

  America, Salute, Deals

  "Sane Man", 1989.

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• Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Suicide, Sex, School

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• Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

  Tom Robbins

  Home, Fire, Volcanoes

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.

  Archie Fire Lame Deer

  Eye, Air, Twinkling

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• It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of... it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason - The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'

  Rich Mullins

  Girl, Jesus, Kids

  "'The Lord's Prayer' (February 1994)". "Here in America". CD compilation by Rich Mullins, 2003.

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• I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

  Claire Denis

  Coffee, Perfect Days, Cigarette

  Interview with Adam Nayman, reverseshot.org. June 26, 2009.

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• You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

  George Wells Beadle

  Science, Winning, Dna

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• Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

  John Milton

  Men, Earth, Spots

  'Comus' (1637) l. 5

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• When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Flames, Becoming, Celebration

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• In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise.

  Wayne Dyer

  Reality, Chocolate, Mind

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.20, Hay House, Inc

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• Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice.

  Kate Horsley

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.87, Shambhala Publications

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• Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire.

  Aeschylus

  Fire, Black

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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• For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.

  Peter Damian

  Eye, Pride, Attachment

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• Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

  Doris Grumbach

  Air, Ideas, Silence

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Memorial

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• I love marijuana - Mary Jane - and you can print that! I smoke it every day and it's the greatest thing since ice cream and I'm not afraid to say it.

  Rick James

  Marijuana, Ice Cream, Mary Jane

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Nov 18, 2013

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• On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Home, Sea, Land

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• You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.

  Toni Morrison

  Connotation, Sentences, Rely

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• In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Issues, Choices

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• Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

  Gregory Harrison

  Stars, War, Cigarette Smoke

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• If we believe [Obama] to be a good man who would never kill noncombatants in a cafe in Houston, sitting out in a sidewalk cafe, smoking - oh, that's right you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Men, Smoking

  "The 10 Best Lines From Rand Paul's Incredible Filibuster On Civil Liberties" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. March 06, 2013.

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• The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret.

  Rumi

  Fire, Soul, Secret

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• I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

  Andy Warhol

  Heaven, Want, Pot

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• Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Long, Recipes

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