Smoking Quotes - Page 25

• Yesterday when we were getting high, you were invited. You woulda liked it.

  Drake

  Yesterday, Getting High, Invited

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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, Alive, Causes

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• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Air, Breathing, Cities

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Cancer, Humanity, Doubt

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• People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, People, Choices

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• My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a selfish absorption in the well-being and achievement of Noel Coward.

  Noel Coward

  Philosophy, Selfish, Drinking

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• I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Two, Cigar, Sermons

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Science, Self, Views

  Rudyard Kipling, M.M. Kaye (2002). “Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse”, Kyle Cathie Limited

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• If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

  Stephen Leacock

  Reading, Book, Library

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• I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boys, Mind, Opera

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• My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.

  Jo Brand

  Exercise, Doctors, Three

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• I'd much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Noses, Next, Restaurants

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• I think the anti-smoking business is a yuppie invention-an extension of the concept that "we'll always be young, rich, and healthy.

  Frank Zappa

  Health, Thinking, Yuppies

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• I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.

  Les Dawson

  Stars, Moon, Night

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• You have to work at it if you want to be a good smoker. Especially today with all the non-smoking world constantly harassing you.

  Kinky Friedman

  World, Want, Today

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap, and when he jumped up, his head hit the switch.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, People

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

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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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• A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

  C. Everett Koop

  People, Funeral, Three

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

  Graham Parker

  If I Could, Ifs, Smoke

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• In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Real, Player

  "Smoking Barthez ignores Ferguson" by David Barnes, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2001.

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• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  Adam Brody

  Dream, Fighting, Phones

  Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

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• If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

  Olivia Colman

  Children, Nice, Struggle

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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, Mouths

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• If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Cancer, Odds, Numbers

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