Smoke Quotes - Page 32

• Not sorry, not calling, not crying
  All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
  Seized by the gold of autumn,
  I will no longer be young.

  Sergei Yesenin

  Sorry, Autumn, White

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• All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Beautiful, Clouds, Mirrors

  How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer (1975). Usually quoted as "smoke and mirrors."

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• 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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• Drink up, England... I WANT your liver to fail. Smoke up England, I WANT you to die.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Want, England

  "ROH/FWA Frontiers Of Honor". Event promoted by Ring Of Honor and Frontier Wrestling Alliance at York Hall in Bethnal Green, England, May 17, 2003.

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• My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

  CM Punk

  Mother, Dad, Real

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• Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Drinking, Food

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• I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening; the principal failing in his character as a philosopher is that he does not smoke.

  John Dalton

  Character, Science, Intelligent

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

  Graham Parker

  Smoking, If I Could, Ifs

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• Whatever you do, don't smoke.

  Yul Brynner

  Advice

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• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  Yul Brynner

  Gone

  "Risky Teen Behaviors Encourage Oral Cancer" by Dr. Manny Alvarez, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2007.

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• I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

  Ronnie Wood

  Coffee, Lines, Cups

  "The do Ron Ron" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2001.

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• The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.

  Bobby Flay

  Thinking, Flames, Ideas

  "Homework: Memorial Day Grilling Dreams". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 25, 2008.

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• I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

  Cilla Black

  Joints, Enjoy, Joint Efforts

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• I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Beautiful, Yoga, Thinking

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• I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out.

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Work Out, Feel Good, Healthy

  "Elizabeth Berkley joins TV's ballroom blitz". Interview with Choire Sicha, www.latimes.com. April 6, 2008.

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• I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla.

  Jason Bateman

  Vanilla, Normal, Life Is

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• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Trying, Vitamins, Boring

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• To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Husband, Cutting, Smoking

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