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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I smelled smoke and my first thought was that my house was on fire. When I got outside, I could see ... JACK ELLIOTT As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nost... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Alaska finished her cigarette and flicked it into the river. 'Why do you smoke so damn fast?' I... JOHN GREEN Take a 'smoke' break, a Short Mental or Kinetic Excursion. Cigarettes need not be involved. DANIEL BRYANT GATES The smoke rolls along the low ceiling and pours up into the night - a reverse waterfall - like when ... JOE DUNTHORNE It appears that the last person to smoke here did not put their cigarette out in the bin. SAMANTHA KNAPP Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. BIBLE For some people, cigarette smoke absolutely disgusts them. ANDREW BROWN A walk?" said Catharine. "One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bri... KURT VONNEGUT JR. you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score. EARL WEAVER Dedicated to all my smokers friends:--
We smoke cigarette to filter smoke with our lungs,That help u... SUNNY THAKUR For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because... LESLIE MARMON SILKO His lips made a grim twist that was like the joyless cousin of a smile. LAINI TAYLOR It's good health policy to have higher cigarette prices. It prevents kids from starting to smoke and... MARC MANLEY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. MARJANE SATRAPI 5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poet... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON With nowhere to smoke in the pub or the office, smokers are nipping outside for a cigarette. ALAN WOODS You don't see the white smoke coming out of the Capitol tough. NEIL BRESLIN It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors,... SAMIRA WILEY Both Roddy and I were smokers. The producer, Arthur Jacobs, had long-stemmed cigarette holders made ... KIM HUNTER They still smoke. Taking out the urns doesn't stop it. It's just cluttering the quad with cigarette ... BOGAN DURR It is an American weakness. The success becomes the sage. Scientists counsel on civil liberty; comed... ROBERT LECKIE Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, ... GREGORY HARRISON I read a lot of short fiction, like Kurt Vonnegut and Raymond Carver and Wells Tower. LORDE If you work out, it kind of kills your mood for McDonald's or to smoke a cigarette. SASHA COURBAT Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.'... BOB ELLIOTT My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air wit... DOROTHY PARKER It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenl... JACK KEROUAC The whole sky above the terminal seemed to be glowing. All you could see was smoke and flames. BOB JAMES I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink ... ANTHONY HOPKINS And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great fu... BIBLE Miranda was a huge fan of the Yankees. I was a huge fan of being anywhere you could smoke and drink ... SARAH JESSICA PARKER Individuals who are exposed to passive cigarette smoke on a daily basis have more atherosclerosis --... GEORGE HOWARD In the beginning it was all black and white. MAUREEN O'HARA I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, ... OLAFUR ELIASSON The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke. ARUNDHATI ROY We covered about 300 homes today. And visited them and checked on whether they had smoke alarms. And... BRUCE GARNER She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way... EMILY POST Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smo... ANTHONY LICCIONE We observed smoke from the Chinese rigs and we believe that production started on Tuesday, AKIRA CHIBA Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to s... CHRISTY TURLINGTON He’s completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke ... REBECCA MCNUTT A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke, Another one bought from the store. If he lights one, his... SANHITA BARUAH I have a beard of fog that I wear on misty mornings. It’s not cigarette smoke, but I’d understan... JAROD KINTZ made no proposal and then what there was went up in smoke. . . . He circled around the subject and s... CELSO AMORIM I came out of the pits first and Kasey Kahne was up there on two tires and Kurt came up behind me, s... MATT KENSETH The message is clear: Only someone who isn't from the right side of the tracks would put their healt... ANDERSON JONES My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air... DOROTHY PARKER It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH Black and white thinking forces a choice between pretending we know everything and believing we know... TERENCE T. GORSKI Our personal past is only available to us now through black-and-white film, it's a medium for commun... FRANK LENTRICCHIA All the windows were blacked out from heavy smoke conditions. There was dark smoke. The house was es... JIM FLAHERTY You are a furry gnome and we feed you too much! Dorothy to Sophia THE GOLDEN GIRLS Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ... LILLIAN S. VILORIA Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things WALT DISNEY COMPANY When we put LIVE backwards it spells EVIL, interesting how one word can have two totally opposing me... GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater. L.J. SMITH And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,... MONTY PYTHON I make mistakes. That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like... ALICE HOFFMAN There, on the far side of of the Atlantic, would be Maine, but despite the shared ocean, her island ... BARBARA DELINSKY The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul. RENEE AHDIEH Still, most parents who smoke ardently hope that their children do not smoke. Public health educator... CHRISTINE JACKSON I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The plastic created very thick smoke, ... There was a tremendous amount of smoke. PETER BYRNE So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinkin... KURT VONNEGUT We found no smoke alarms on the second level. We found a smoke alarms on the first-floor level that ... LLOYD AYERS We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially becaus... CHRIS CRUTCHER The colour or intensity of a smoke doesn’t determine the type of fire that forms the smoke. AGBOR JENET What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirr... JULIE BURCHILL Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies. KURT VONNEGUT He is slowing the game down instead of having to hurry up and do things. He's comfortable. He caught... SMOKE LAVAL We're finally starting to get our offense in sync. We haven't been pitching well, and now we lose a ... SMOKE LAVAL That gentleman from Vanderbilt, probably in three or four years, major leaguers aren't going to want... SMOKE LAVAL He (Dirks) made some bad pitches to the good hitters and usually he does the opposite. He makes a mi... SMOKE LAVAL He was in the zone with three pitches. Even the one ball that was hit really shouldn't have been swu... SMOKE LAVAL All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke... JIMMY BRESLIN Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
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KURT VONNEGUT I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don't matter anymore. KURT VONNEGUT There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained ci... KURT VONNEGUT The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental dis... KURT VONNEGUT There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Broth... KURT VONNEGUT All this happened, more or less. KURT VONNEGUT Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall... KURT VONNEGUT Only in books do we learn what’s really going on. KURT VONNEGUT The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the ... KURT VONNEGUT Life is no way to treat an animal. KURT VONNEGUT A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society. KURT VONNEGUT To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. KURT VONNEGUT In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which tho... KURT VONNEGUT I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instea... KURT VONNEGUT Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transve... KURT VONNEGUT Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't... KURT VONNEGUT I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. KURT VONNEGUT And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'I... KURT VONNEGUT Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got t... KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an... KURT VONNEGUT All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. KURT VONNEGUT Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy. *Harmless untruths KURT VONNEGUT profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and... KURT VONNEGUT Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-co... KURT VONNEGUT One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or... KURT VONNEGUT The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Pr... KURT VONNEGUT This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to ju... KURT VONNEGUT My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites,... KURT VONNEGUT People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God. KURT VONNEGUT Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism ... KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki... KURT VONNEGUT This is a beguiling book, KURT VONNEGUT and I'm whistling as beautifully as I can. KURT VONNEGUT Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our P... KURT VONNEGUT The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal. KURT VONNEGUT The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the hu... KURT VONNEGUT What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as gla... KURT VONNEGUT Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the... 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