Smoking Quotes - Page 38

• "Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Interesting

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.17

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• When they saw me walking down the street smoking a cigar, they'd say, 'Hey, that 14-year-old kid may be going places.' Of course it's also a good prop on the stage ... When you can't think of what you're supposed to say next, you can puff on your cigar until you think of your next line.

  George Burns

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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• There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I'll just tell them to relax.

  James Franco

  Kids, Beer, Long

  "Pineapple Express - James Franco interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I gave up smoking, I never gave up the drinking. But it's hard to smoke and swim at the same time. You'd get to the edge of the pool and all you'd be wanting is a cigarette when all you actually really want is oxygen. So I traded the smoke for the oxygen.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Drinking, Oxygen, Swim

  "The Guardian - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time.

  Robert Benchley

  Smart, People, Important

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• There are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. Did I have any idea that I would indulge in long, drooling-nay, dribbling-lascivious dreams in which I was still wreathed in fragrant blue fumes? I would wake with the complete and guilty conviction that I had sinned in word and deed while I was asleep.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Dream, Blue, Ideas

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.184, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Giving Up, Writing, Science

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• That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

  Beth Henley

  Destiny, Giving, Want

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• Italian hospitals are great. The doctor smoking in the emergency room will sign any prescription you ask for.

  Derrick Williams

  Italian, Doctors, Rooms

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• I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

  Mark Twain

  Broken, Months, Principles

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.266, University of Missouri Press

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• Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

  Dean Ornish

  Stress, Healing, Sadness

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• The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Ocean, Past

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• Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Dirty, Hazards, Literature

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• I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid.

  Groucho Marx

  Morning, Kids, World

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

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• People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing.

  Mitch Hedberg

  People, Quitting, Cigarette

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• I stopped smoking weed for my kids. One day, we were driving and you could smell it from somewhere. My daughter asked what the smell was so I told her it was a skunk. Then she said, 'Sometimes Daddy smells like that!' to me and my wife. So I knew I had to quit.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Daughter, Weed, Kids

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• Children whose developing lungs are particularly vulnerable suffer the most from air pollution. For children, breathing the air in cities with the worst pollution, such as Beijing, Calcutta, Mexico City, Shanghai, and Tehran, is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Children, Air, Breathing

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• I miss smoking (two to four packs a day) but I don't miss the crackle in my lungs when I breathed.

  Eden Robinson

  Two, Missing, Four

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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• Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Drinking, Nerves, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Make no mistake about it: Legalization is not about, you know, Cheech & Chong smoking marijuana or, you know, a Grateful Dead concert; it's about creating the next Marlboro of our time, the next Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, the Big Tobacco all over again.

  Kevin Sabet

  Mistake, Grateful, Marijuana

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Finally, one night we were smoking pot [with Michael O'Donoghue] and talking about the people that are invariably in high school, whether you go to prep school or public school or ghetto school or rich suburban school. And actually, it spun off from a Kurt Vonnegut quote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  School, Ghetto, Night

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the guy to do it. That was great.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ideas, Guy, Needs

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You've got guys on freeways with motorbikes with no helmets on, you can't drink until you're 21 and we wonder why so many youth are smoking f - ing cannabis, and you can start driving here at 15. How f - ed up is that?

  Chelsea Handler

  Guy, Driving, Youth

  Source: variety.com

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• There's a price you pay for drinking too much, for eating too much sugar, smoking too much marijuana, using too much cocaine, or even drinking too much water. All those things can mess you up, especially, drinking too much L.A. water ... or Love Canal for that matter. But, if people had a better idea of what moderation is really all about, then some of these problems would ... If you use too much of something, your body's just gonna go the "Huh? ... Duh!"

  Frank Zappa

  Drinking, Marijuana, Ideas

  Source: afka.net

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• To me, smoking pot meant sitting with a newspaper on my legs, rolling the seeds down, pulling the twigs out and finally producing a perfectly cylindrical, absolutely wonderful joint that you either locked at both ends or pinched off, or pinched at one end and left open at the other.

  George Carlin

  Rolling, Sitting, Legs

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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