Smoking Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.

  Ishmael Reed

  Men, Devil, Roles

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I would rather people not smoke. I certainly appreciate the fact that smoking is not legal in restaurants and bars. That used to stop me from going out at night because you'd go someplace and your clothes would reek and you wouldn't enjoy the experience and that affects your rights. It's always a question.

  Ian Bremmer

  Night, Rights, Clothes

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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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• It's the same as saying, you know, "I'll smoke, but that's up to me." Doctors don't recommend it. I don't recommend smoking. It's a bad idea. Smoking or spanking. Bad ideas.

  Sean Hannity

  Doctors, Ideas, Spanking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• I'm a complete libertarian. I think it's very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society - the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business. It's an attitude where the governors think, 'We know what's best for people, and they're so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it.'

  Jeremy Irons

  Attitude, Stupid, Mean

  "Oscar-Winner Jeremy Irons Slams Bloomberg's 'Nanny State'", www.realclearpolitics.com. April 03, 2013.

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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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• It seems The Journal of Neurology reports that the longer you smoke, the less likely you are to develop Parkinson's disease. So what are they telling us? Follow me guys. Remember, a couple of months ago, doctors said drinking a glass of alcohol every day was good for your heart. Smoking prevents Parkinson's disease. Marijuana is good for glaucoma. Sex is good for your prostate. You know, screw health care. Let's party!

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Couple, Party

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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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• Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Cancer, Causes, Enough

  Lecture 35 in Saint Hill Special Briefing Course, July 19, 1961.

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• Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning-of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white-spotted one.

  A. A. Milne

  School, Men, White

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• I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, Thinking

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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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• Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

  Ian Fleming

  Animal, Breathing, Cows

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• I gotta cut smoking or I'll never make track next year

  S. E. Hinton

  Cutting, Years, Track

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• Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Beer

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• I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.

  Douglas Coupland

  Writing, Animal, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Suicide, Form, Honorable

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• good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.

  Warren Ellis

  Morning, Brain, Bulls

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