Quotes with smoking

  • Smoking... kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.
  • 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?
  • Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
    Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31)
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Bob Dylan I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bill Hicks I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great. He goes, What? I'm 28.
    Source: Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Luis Bunuel 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
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Milan Kundera Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • George D. Prentice Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Brooke Shields Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Smoking... kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.
    Source: Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Beth Henley 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
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Beth Orton The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bill Hicks They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.
    Source: Dark Poet
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Mark Twain To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Dole We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Bob Dole We know [smoking tobacco] is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not good.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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