Smoking Quotes - Page 31

• A club there is of smokers--dare you come
  To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room?
  When, midnight past, the very candles seem
  Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam;
  When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise,
  And prosing topers rub their winking eyes.

  George Crabbe

  Eye, Past, Air

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.180

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• But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Food, Cutting

  Herman Melville (2015). “MOBY-DICK (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED): OR, THE WHALE”, p.100, Rastro Digital

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• Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

  Kathryn Hughes

  Real, Food, Autumn

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• You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really the chiefest of your health concerns at this point?

  Greg Proops

  Sex, Growing Up, Drinking

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• Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Self, Attention

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• Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die - when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream - the greedy need?

  Giannina Braschi

  Dream, Reality, Greed

  "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

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• Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

  John Lennon

  Animal, Gun, Ideas

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• On our first tour we just went full on, drinking too much and smoking too much before the shows. But it's a learning curve. We now know our limits.

  Dave McPherson

  Drinking, Curves, Too Much

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• If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Father, Reading

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.220, Library of Alexandria

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• Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us." For me, commitment boils down to honor. Because you make a commitment to protect our environment, you make a commitment to species preservation, you make a commitment to stop things like human trafficking. You make a commitment to stop smoking, to eat better. Typically, something that is positive. A positive notion of honor.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Commitment, Ideas, Giving

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• I was photographing the photographer Brassaï. He had very prominent eyes, like a frog's. As I focused my lens, he brought his hand up and pretended to focus his eye. It was a joke, but it added mystery to the picture. There's a sense of action in a very small world. Or with Allen Ginsberg there were people smoking cigarettes and in the smoke there's a sense of motion. It makes much out of very little.

  John Loengard

  Eye, Hands Up, People

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• Will power is not telling anybody you quit smoking.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Quitting, Quit Smoking, Will Power

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• Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object to something because it is unhealthy or unsafe. So smoking is now a worse evil than six of the Ten Commandments, and the word sinful is most commonly associated with chocolate.

  David Brooks

  Past, Evil, Chocolate

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• And under the new guidelines issued by the Obama Administration, Federal agents will not pursue pot-smoking patients in states that allow medical marijuana. This new policy is called 'Don't Ask, Don't -- What Was I Talking About?'

  Jay Leno

  Marijuana, Talking, Agents

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• We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana.

  Bernie Sanders

  Marijuana, Jail, People

  CNN Democratic Debate, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. October 13, 2015.

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• An overweight guy went to the doctor who advised him to try a keep fit DVD. But the guy said he couldn't be bothered. “Well” suggested the doctor, “try something that leaves you a little short of breath.” So the buy took up smoking.

  Jo Brand

  Doctors, Dvds, Guy

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• I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day.

  Etgar Keret

  Guy, Kind, Pot

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

  Jami Attenberg

  Challenges, Quitting, Cigarette

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Drinking, Beer, Dope

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I enjoyed being at Jurassic Park, with Jeff Goldblum and Sir Richard Attenborough. It's funny, because Steven Spielberg would actually operate the camera sometimes. He'd consider the camera, and he'd be kind of looking at me. He actually shot a few of the things that I'm in, in that lab, with that long ash dangling off that cigarette. Hogging that fake cigarette. Because I had quit smoking, and he wanted to make sure I didn't go back, so he got me the worst-tasting fake cigarettes ever.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Long, Jurassic Park, Fake

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• Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

  Illmaculate

  Weed, Rap, Age

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• Mary, you make me wanna eat you
  Every time I see you, it's like the first time I meet you
  Fragrance like a flower, subtle and sweet too
  Seductive and whatever, it might as well be see through.

  Daniel Dumile

  Weed, Sweet, Rap

  Song: My Favorite Ladies

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• They legalized alcohol, they legalized tobacco. What is it gonna hurt to legalize this medicinal, medical marijuana that's used for purposes of cataracts?

  Snoop Dogg

  Weed, Hurt, Marijuana

  "Snoop Dogg: My Aroma Will Get Obama High And Convince Him To Legalize Weed" by Brett Michael Dykes, uproxx.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Mother, Weed, Marijuana

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• I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.

  Bob Denver

  Weed, Marijuana, Air

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