Smoke Quotes - Page 5

• I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down - it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.

  Kid Cudi

  Weed, People, Bumps

  "Kid Cudi: Mad Man On The Moon". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Dust, Flames

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• Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Doe, World

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 495-500, Virginibus Puerisque, Part I, 1922.

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• It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Fire, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.604, ShandonPress

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• Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

  Homer

  Anger, Men, Honey

  "The Iliad". Epic poem by Homer, c. 750 BC.

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• September is the time to begin again. In the country, when I could smell the wood-smoke in the forest, and the curtains could be drawn when the tea came in, on the first autumn evening, I always felt that my season of good luck had come.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Country, Good Luck, Autumn

  Eleanor Perenyi (2016). “More Was Lost: A Memoir”, p.29, New York Review of Books

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• The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

  Philip Sidney

  Pain, Life And Death, Monsters

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• When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

  Nelly Sachs

  Sleep, Men, Breathing

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Heart, Fire

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.

  Amy Poehler

  Tired, Mirrors, Clean

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

  Adyashanti

  Fire, Mind, Burning

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• God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Flames, Burning

  Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm Ready to Die without a Reasonable Doubt
  Smoke Chronic and hit it Doggystyle before I go out.
  Until they sign my Death Certificate, All Eyez on Me
  I'm still at it, Illmatic, and that's The Documentary.

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Rap, Hip Hop, Doubt

  Song: The Documentary, Album: The Documentary

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• I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.

  Steve Jobs

  Stress, Mean, Science

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• Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

  William Osler

  Hard Work, Dust, Aggravation

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.301, Duke University Press

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• I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. Martin Sheen The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Fire, Government, Long

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• I don't smoke, drink. I exercise, drink lots of water, eat well, don't sun. Me cuido.There's a lot of things that I want to do.

  Thalia

  Exercise, Water, Want

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• The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.

  John Muir

  Summer, Country, Sky

  John Muir (1918). “The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails”

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• I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention.

  John Muir

  Book, Mind, Attention

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.94, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I've weaned myself down to about, on a great day, on a really great day, three cigarettes. For a nicotine junkie the essential cigs are three: the first-of-the-day cigarette smoked after lunch, the after-dinner cigarette and then the one taken whenever you want - the luxury-wild-card smoke. It used to be quite a bit more. It used to be, I'd smoke the table. I'd smoke the patch. I'd smoke the gum. So I feel good about it.

  Johnny Depp

  Taken, Lunch, Luxury

  "The two Johnnies". www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2005.

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• I don't choose stay in the state of sadness, any more than I would choose to stay in a room with the smoke alarm going off.

  Gloria Jones

  Women, Sadness, Alarms

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• I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.

  Ann Landers

  Women, Years, Decision

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• On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.

  Ian Mckellen

  New York, Men, Past

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.

  Bill Bryson

  America, People, Would Be

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• Public health regulations are often controversial at the time but who would want to go back to the days of sitting in smoke-filled restaurants or cars without seatbelts?

  Sarah Wollaston

  Car, Sitting, Want

  "Big tobacco has got its way - now let's find what big alcohol is up to" by Sarah Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2013.

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