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Quotes About Smoke

Gentile smoked salmon is all... muscular and smells of smoke. It's not very fatty. They don't understand - smoked salmon should be almost spreadable! So you give them the real stuff and they can't believe how delicious it is.
~ Giles Coren
You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this.
~ Franco Nero
Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.
~ Loni Anderson
And the beautiful lady, still with her beautiful wasp's waist, the very beautiful lady whose charms buzz around our childish dreams, will not turn to cigar smoke when the North Star appears.
~ Michel Leiris
Soy Espejo Humeante porque me veo en todos vosotros, pero no nos reconocemos mutuamente por el humo que hay entre nosotros. Ese humo es el Sueño, y el espejo eres tú, el soñador».
~ Miguel Ruiz
The world of illusion, the Dream, is just like smoke which doesn't allow us to see what we really are. "The real us is pure love, pure light," he said.
~ Miguel Ruiz
At least the smoke would give me a little cover; it was also choking me, making my eyes water and my lungs ache and spasm with each breath, but you can't have everything.
~ Mike Carey
Slinky as a lynx, hot as pepper, cool as rain, dry as smoke. There's considerably more to her than staying sexy at 60.
~ Ros Asquith
So, my dear, we will send him away to smoke the cigarette in the garden, whiles you and I have little talk all to ourselves.' I took the hint, and strolled about, and presently the professor came to the window and called me in. He
~ Bram Stoker
Out of Bull Run would come an effort so prodigious that simply to make it would change America forever. In the dust and smoke along the Warrenton Road an era had come to an end.
~ Bruce Catton
Cuban cigars
~ Carl Hiaasen
British flight attendants warn you not to tamper with the smoke detectors in the aircraft toilets, whereas American flight attendants warn you not to tamper with, disable or destroy them.
~ Terry Eagleton
He encouraged me to take one more deep puff and hold it in, so I did, and the smoke traveled down on top of my esophagus and then did a U-turn up into where my brain was supposed to be. At first it felt like fireworks, and then I began to feel like I was floating down a stream. I liked it. And I took another puff and studied my ass off. The next morning, however, I would fail my very first Spanish exam, because I would not remember how to conjugate anything except Abraham.
~ Terry McMillan
There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.
~ Terry Pratchett
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.
~ Terry Pratchett
the queen appeared as innocent as one of those mountains which smoke a little, and then one day end up causing a whole civilization to become an art installation
~ Terry Pratchett
smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances.
~ Terry Pratchett
I shall be loved as quiet things Are loved--white pigeons in the sun, Curled yellow leaves that whisper down One after one; The silver reticence of smoke That tells no secret of its birth Among the fiery agonies That turn the earth.
~ Karle Wilson Baker
A thin stream of smoke drifted skyward, speaking of mysteries within.
~ Katherine Howe
He smelled like smoke and laundered sheets left to dry in the sun.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The train started with two whistles and a jerk. Ostriches bounded off the track as we passed, their feathers billowing like smoke. The mountains were grey, flickering in the heat haze. Sometimes a truck smeared a dust-cloud along the horizon.
~ Bruce Chatwin
I told them I failed my draft physical. My dad, who often dismissively uttered the words "I can't wait 'til the army gets ahold of you," sat at the kitchen table, flicked the ash off of his cigarette, took a puff, slowly let the smoke escape from his lips and mumbled, "That's good.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and even when most obscured by that London smoke, token is yet given that a hidden hero is there; for where there is smoke, must be fire.
~ Herman Melville
Troy has perished, the great city. Only the red flame now lives there. The dust is rising, spreading out like a great wing of smoke and all is hidden. We now are gone, one here, one there. And Troy is gone forever. Farewell, dear city. Farewell, my country, where my children lived. There below, the Greek ships wait.
~ Homer