Quotes about smoke
Steven Magee -
If you want to radiation poison a nation, just start shipping them cheap ionizing smoke detectors for the home with a little too much radiation in them.
Saahil Prem -
When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn.
Vijaya Gowrisankar -
The smell of cars' smokeas I wade through trafficovershadows the freshfragrance of Mother Earthdrenched in rain. There canbe no greater testimony to man's progress
Jonathan L. Howard - Johannes Cabal the Detective
Do you smoke, Herr Cabal?""Only to be antisocial," replied Cabal, making no move.
Bill Watterson - There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin"Flatulence could be all the rage, but it would still be disgusting." - Calvin's mom
Dennis Lehane - Mystic River
She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.
John Geddes -
...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...
Dan Chaon - Stay Awake
I guess," says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human.
Roman Payne -
We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.
Charlotte Eriksson - Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn’t get much easier.
Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke. Like a volcano. Like a monster. I want to fume. I do not want to be the girl whose job it is to wail in a high-pitched voice at funerals.
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
Charles Kettering -
The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Zebulon Pike -
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Ezekiel Elliott -
Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.
George Burns -
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
John Calvin -
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
Mark Twain -
I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
Naomi Campbell -
I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
Benjamin Disraeli -
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Emma Rose Kraus - A Blue One
She called herself Starla, Queen of the Nile, and she had me from the first moment I saw her walk onto that stage. She wore nine-inch-heels and a dress that shone in the multi-colored lighting, glimmering through the haze created by the smoke machines and cigarettes.
Anthony Biglan - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men and 17.9 percent of women were smoking (CDC 2011). These numbers represent one of the twentieth century’s most important public health achievements.
Ellen Hopkins - Smoke
Some peopleAre worthy of a bullet straightto the heart because that is wherecruelty evolves into evil.Somehumans aren't human at all,despite how they appear.Humanity is what lives insidepeople,harbored beneath skin, flesh,and bone.
Chuck Wendig - Star Wars - Aftermath - Empire's End
Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire,” Solo says before adding quietly, “Usually an electrical fire near the hyperspace drive, which Chewie always warns me about…
Christina Engela - Blachart
Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.
Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.
Danabelle Gutierrez - & Until The Dreams Come
Even through the smoke,you are still the most beautiful thingin this city and I, well, I am stillthe last thing you’d save in a fire.
Sy Montgomery - Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
Always somewhere there is fire or smoke, insistent reminders of the greed consuming the world
Christian Kiefer - The Infinite Tides
Know this. That the things that go into the fire are forever changed. That all you have ever done can be measured not by distance but by circumference. That these twin spirals of smoke; they are your life, rising in curls.
Sreesha Divakaran - Those Imperfect Strokes
You don't fade from within my mind; it's a flawThat I dwell on each moment, cling to youLike smoke escaping my fingers while the candles burn them raw
Rick Riordan - The House of Hades
Oh, yeah?" Leo growled. "Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.
Katherine McIntyre - Snatched
My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.
M.F. Moonzajer - A moment with God ; Poetry
Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever.
Laura Gentile - Seraphic Addiction
Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair.
Michael Salter - Organised Sexual Abuse
Smoke and mirrors’ is a useful metaphor for the ways in which organised abuse has chided conceptualisation and understanding. The chapter provides an overview of cite often incendiary debates over organised abuse before going on to suggest that critical theories on gender, crime and intersubjectivity may offer new insights into the phenomenon.
Tom Robbins -
A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, above the slate rooftops. Chestnut blossoms, weary from having been admired all day, wore faint smiles of anticipation.
Ellen Hopkins - Smoke
What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
Théophile Gautier - Émaux et Camées
And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.
Ljupka Cvetanova - The New Land
Where there is a smoke, there is an ecologist.
Rebecca McNutt - My Name is Grief: A Short Story About 9/11
He’s completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.
Laini Taylor - Daughter of Smoke & Bone
...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.
Patrick White - The Tree Of Man
And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, glowed and increased, and was suddenly extinguished in the little puffs of smoke and tired thoughts.
Charles Bukowski - Hot Water Music
What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
Markus Zusak - Fighting Ruben Wolfe
They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.
Dorianne Laux - Smoke
How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?
Anthony Liccione -
Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.
Mark Twain - On Masturbation
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.
Jayne Anne Phillips - Lark & Termite
Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.
Seré Prince Halverson - All the Winters After
Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.
Vincent van Gogh -
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Cormac McCarthy - Suttree
Used to be a hobo right smart. back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could do. I was ridin through the mountains one night, state of Colorado. Dead of winter it was and bitter cold. I had just a smidgin of tobacco, bout enough for one or two smokes. I was in one of them old slatsided cars and I'd been up and down in it like a dog tryin to find some place where the wind wouldnt blow. Directly I scrunched up in a corner and rolled me a smoke and lit it and thowed the match
Cormac McCarthy - Suttree
I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's the god's truth. That was in nineteen and thirty one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I dont think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around the bend and them flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Last Night I Sang to the Monster
What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose.Drinking and smoking over and overWhat's so great about a life that's sober?There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.
Steve Maraboli -
September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives… I will never forget the smell of the smoke that reached across the water and delivered a deep feeling of doom into my gut… I will never forget feeling the boosted sense of unity and pride… I will never forget seeing the courageous actions of so many men and women… I will never forget seeing people of all backgrounds working together in community… I will never forget se