Smoking Quotes - Page 12

• He lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes.

  John Green

  Vomiting, Benches, Spinning

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Penguin

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• I'm about as healthy as a person can be. I quit smoking seven or eight years ago.

  Karen Allen

  Eight, Years, Healthy

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• Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

  Marilu Henner

  Stress, Drinking, Past

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• It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

  Mark Hoppus

  Drinking, Marijuana, Voice

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• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  Nat King Cole

  Marijuana, People, Television

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• I quit smoking well over twenty years ago.

  Shelley Berman

  Marijuana, Years, Twenties

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• Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.

  David Sedaris

  Sex, Writing, Class

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• My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying. So I went downstairs, picked up a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and showed her what real fear was.

  Robert Clarke

  Daughter, Real, Dying

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• Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

  Herman Melville

  Beautiful, Art, Female

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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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• She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.

  Judith Martin

  Husband, Shoes, Joy

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• ...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got from twirling the fingers'. My impulse was to tell her Tolstoy was off his onion, but I choked down the heated words. For all I know, the man might be a bosom pal of hers and she might resent criticism of him, however justified.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Criticism, Pals

  P. G. Wodehouse (1990). “The Cat-Nappers”, HarperCollins

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• If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

  Katherine Heigl

  Drinking, Church, Able

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• Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, People, Car

  "Bubble? What Bubble?"by Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. July 07, 2011.

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• When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.

  Pink

  Mom, Cigarette, Caught

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  Pat Morita

  Cutting, People, May

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

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• I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

  Patrick Swayze

  Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer

  "Patrick Swayze Opens Up About Cancer Battle, Blames Smoking". Interview with Barbara Walters, www.mtv.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Cancer, People, Effort

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• We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

  Matt Stone

  School, Immature, Kind

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

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• When I was an art student in the early 60′s before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

  Bill Griffith

  Art, Marijuana, Acid

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• I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

  Tommy Rettig

  Addiction, World, Helping

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• What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

  Arthur Helps

  Blessing, Discovery, America

  Arthur Helps (1859). “Friends in Council”, p.16

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• Unless I specifically inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.

  Martin Amis

  Cigarette

  "Why we love to hate Martin Amis" by Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2014.

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• We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Stupid, War, Gun

  Condoleezza Rice (2011). “No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington”, p.198, Broadway Books

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• If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''

  Luis Bunuel

  Drinking, Order, Devil

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