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Quotes About Smoke

I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.
~ Catherine Zeta-Jones
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
Bob Holmes, the script editor, did laugh and filled his pipe so that he could create a smoke screen between us while he turned the idea down.
~ Tom Baker
Good barbecue has to fall off the bone when you grab it, and, to me, it's not pull-hard chewy.
~ Sinbad
It could also be applied to the Moonies, Jehovah's Witnesses and many other successful religious movements. If smoke is evidence of fire, are they all true?
~ Dan Barker
If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.
~ Katie Lee
Marriage is like a game of chess, except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..
~ Alan Jackson
Mickey Mouse Clubs started to spring up all over America. At their meetings, kids recited the Mickey Mouse Club pledge: "Mickey Mice do not swear, smoke, cheat, or lie." There was also a special club song.
~ Whitney Stewart
dunes. As they approached the shack there was smoke rising from the chimney and when they entered the lean-to kitchen, there was a fire on the open hearth. Swart Hendrick looked up from it. 'The Jew has taken the table and the chairs,' he said. 'But I hid the pots and the
~ Wilbur Smith
Low-ceilinged and smoke-foxed, it had a curious smell: part beer, part cold fireplace ash, part pipe tobacco.
~ William Boyd
I could still see the smoke stack. That's where the water would be, healing out to the sea and the peaceful grottoes.
~ William Faulkner
The room was filled with smoke, dry worn-out smoke retaining in it like a web the insectile cadavers of dry husks of words which had been spoken and should be gone, the breaths exhaled not to be breathed again. But the words went on, and in those brief interruptions between cigarettes the exhalations were rebreathed.
~ William Gaddis
A sense of the Finn's presence surrounded him, smell of Cuban cigarettes, smoke locked in musty tweed, old machines given up to the mineral rituals of rust.
~ William Gibson
Netherton was watching the intricate texture of her bustier, which resembled a microminiature model of some Victorian cast-iron station roof, its countless tiny panes filmed as by the coal smoke of fingerling locomotives, yet flexing as she breathed and spoke.
~ William Gibson
She wished she hadn't succumbed to irritation. Because she wanted to know about his inner feelings. She always thought people were like pieces of art glass-- strong enough to handle and use, delicate enough to shatter under a strong blow, and filled with swirls of color that fascinated the eye. But while most people--and most glass--allowed light through, she could discern nothing of Devlin's heart and soul through the smoke and mirrors he held before him.
~ Christina Dodd
Der Vater. Der Vater ist viereckig und raucht Ernte 23. Am Sonntag im Bett zieht er den Kindern gern schnurgerade Scheitel. Die Mutter. Die Mutter ist eine Milch eine schoen warme. Aber in der man ertrinkt.
~ Heinar Kipphardt
The smoke from the gun was white as milk over the green of the grass.
~ Leo Tolstoy
pues no todo en el fuego es claridad, sino también leña bruta, y ceniza, y humo...
~ Leopoldo Lugones
The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
~ Mark Ruffalo
Of course, Mao made his mistakes, because everybody does, but at least he allowed working people to smoke, even in the most trying circumstances, such as when, for one reason or another, they found themselves up before the firing squad.
~ Tony Benn
Ash was the Master of Smoke.
~ Unknown
Standing in the doorway, regarding him with an expression of predatory pleasure, was The Smoke.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Whiskers: According to an old bit of folklore, cat's whiskers that you find somewhere can be used in a wish-fulfilling spell. For this to work, burn the whisker and whisper a wish to the smoke. This spell might be accomplished with the whiskers of other animals too, like using a dog's whiskers to inspire devotion and constancy.
~ Unknown