Ashtrays Quotes

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Life And Death, Perfect

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• I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

  Damien Hirst

  Real, Thinking, Real Things

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• I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Smoke

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• Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Beautiful, Hands, Bitter

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• There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

  Fidel Castro

  Fall, Waiting, Smoking Cigars

  Fidel Castro (1969). “Fidel Castro Speaks”

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• Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

  Sara Genn

  Progress, Suits, Thrown

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• Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

  Adam Carolla

  School, College, Juniors

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• Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."

  David Sedaris

  Asking Questions, Waiting Rooms, People

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• Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Enemy

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• Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray.

  Martin de Maat

  Trying, Scene, Deeper

  "Community Mourns the Death of Martin de Maat" by Lisa Lewis, March 2, 2001.

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• My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

  Casey Affleck

  Tree, Making Love, Supportive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

  Helen Rowland

  Kissing, Licking, Smokers

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• Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

  Milan Kundera

  Crush, Smoking, Listening

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• Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Earth, Matter, Aliens

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• British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Children, Humor

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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• I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than tell them everything, you save your details for things that exist. Like what color the ashtray is. How far away the doorway was. So when you're talking about intangible things like emotions, the listener can fill in the blanks and you just draw the foundation.

  John Prine

  Song, Thinking, Color

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• We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact. We are picking up chocolate chips for days. Jon throws a glass of milk, the milk, not the glass: he knows his own strength, as I do not. He throws a box of Cheerios, unopened. The things I throw miss, although they are worse things. The things he throws hit, but are harmless. I begin to see how the line is crossed, between histrionics and murder.

  Margaret Atwood

  Impact, Glasses, Doors

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Past, Ready

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• We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Humor, Luxury

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• There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

  May Sarton

  Real, Fall, Battle

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.

  David Letterman

  Circles, Korea, Evil

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• Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Hair, Doors

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• I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

  Raul Julia

  Book, Reading, Wife

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• I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

  Tom Stoppard

  Eye, Hands, Years

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wall, House, Bed

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