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Quotes About Cigarettes

There's no boot. No boot? No. That makes me sad. I ate it. You ate the boot? Yes. Was it good? No. Were the cigarettes good? No. I couldn't finish them. I couldn't finish the boot.
~ Yann Martel
Although I drank little, I smoked about twenty cigarettes a day, and when I played mahjong all night long, as I sometimes did, I smoked fifty or more. I did not have much to do with the other Japanese in Hankow, and for that reason I was soon able to speak Chinese pretty well.
~ Hiroo Onoda
I believe in friendship,' Band said to Reinhardt, then made his way to Huston and delivered the present. Huston unwrapped his present. 'This is just swell, amigo – just wonderful,' he said to Band. He closed the book and took a cigarette box out of his pocket. It was empty. 'Get me some cigarettes, will ya, kid?' he said. Band rushed off for cigarettes.
~ Unknown
He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.
~ Lily King
I remember how, as a boy, I used to collect the cork tips of my father's cigarettes and stick them in my stamp albums. I believed they contained his unspoken words, which one day would explain everything. I have not changed. Now I explore my memories, trying to discover the substructure hidden beneath my past actions, searching for the link to connect them all.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.
~ Richelle Mead
She was shot dead, in cold blood, he said bitterly. I could see we were in for a long night. I got out my cigarettes.
~ Philip Kerr
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.
~ David Sedaris
some cigarettes and when I returned she sat me down to discuss the Winter Olympics. "Did you see it on the TV? That Tonya Harding? I never liked her. She's a street fighter is what she is, a dirty snot. Nancy Kerrigan I like, but not that street fighter." Tonya Harding really is something else. I resisted the story until I saw a picture of her. With her fierce makeup, she looks like a child's drawing of an angry babysitter.
~ David Sedaris
En cuanto a mí, me paso la vida llevando cigarros a la boca como quien quema margaritas: ¿me quiere? ¿no me quiere?
~ Horacio Quiroga
There were always dog walkers out & about. Sometimes they even stopped for a chat while the various mutts inspected each other. Rebus would be asked how old his dog was. No idea. The breed, then ? Mongrel. And all the while, he would be thinking about cigarettes.
~ Ian Rankin
Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.
~ Craig Johnson
You've got no time at all, but it seems like you've got forever. You've got nothing to do, but it seems like you've got everything. You make coffee and smoke a few cigarettes; and the hands of the clock have gone crazy on you. They haven't moved hardly, they've hardly budged out of the place you last saw them, but they've measured off a half? two-thirds? of your life. You've got forever, but that's no time at all.
~ Jim Thompson
What the song expressed so perfectly from lyric to melody was unrequited love, and we men of the south loved nothing more than unrequited love, cracked hearts our primary weakness after cigarettes, coffee, and cognac.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
if requiring you to show your ID is a method of oppression, then there is an awful lot of oppression going on in this country. Airports are full of oppression. Liquor stores? Oppression. Want to buy a pack of cigarettes? Hope you like your oppression extra smooth. Want to buy a car? Careful, oppression loses half it's value the minute you drive it off the lot.
~ Dennis Prager
Aggravation or stress kills—as do many other things in life, such as cigarettes. But stress is worse than cigarettes. Cigarettes at least give some pleasure before they cause the premature death of about one out of every three smokers. Aggravation, on the other hand, only provides pain and probably kills more people than cigarettes.
~ Dennis Prager
Yine sigara ve içki içilmiÅŸ, sigaralar, kadehler say?lm??; sonra, yaln?z bugün için, iki sigara daha, çünkü bugünle pazartesi aras?nda üç gün var, Ivan's?z üç gün. Ama altm?? sigara sonra Ivan Viyana'ya dönmüÅŸ olacak...
~ Unknown
Not very long ago, the whole world smoked, no room was truly furnished unless it contained an ashtray, and all of waking life was measured out in cigarettes.
~ Unknown
Hunger was constitutional with him, women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need until he went to pieces. The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed their piecedom but kept very quietly on among the chaos.
~ John Berryman
We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it, if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It is a chocolate thing. We
~ Donald Miller
In a little while she got up and went over and closed the door and came back, dropped her halter top and her sun shorts to the floor beside the bed, stood there for not more than two seconds and then stretched out beside me. She bent over the side of the bed and got her cigarettes out of the pocket of the sun shorts, lit two and gave me one and lay back in the circle of my arm, huffed out a big cloud of smoke
~ John D. MacDonald
smoked three packs
~ John Grisham
There were not many people who could say that their education had been paid for with cigarettes.
~ Markus Zusak
Peu de gens savent que fumer des cigarettes tue. En même temps, je ne vois pas ce qu'on peut en faire d'autre...On ne va pas le manger ou se les glisser dans le rectum, tout de même
~ Unknown