Quotes with incense-smoke

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  • Ben Affleck Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Beck Oh, the tragedy and the anguish. You just gotta Rage Against the Appliance, man. The toast is burning and you just gotta rip it out and free it before it fills the house with smoke. Rage Against the Toaster.
    Spin magazine, July 1994
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Vincent Van Gogh One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Bob Dylan Take me disappearing, through the smoke rings of my mind, down the foggy ruins of time...
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Beanie Sigel That's what I do... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke... I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that's my twist.
    Beanie Sigel
    American rapper and actor (1974 - )
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  • Brendan Behan The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bobby Flay The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Dorothea Brande The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Booth Tarkington There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Alison Lurie There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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  • Hubert Humphrey There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Benjamin Watson We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Ashleigh Banfield We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?
    Ashleigh Banfield
    Canadian-American journalist (1967 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruno Mars What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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