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Quotes About Smoke

hand pump. It emitted a faint grayish smoke
~ Lisa Scottoline
told her. "There's smoke in the chimney
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.
~ Rudyard Kipling
She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
~ Alice Hoffman
I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a wisp of smoke, a burning ember.
~ Alice Hoffman
cartridge belts. Maybe wood smoke somewhere. Jacob was dark-eyed and pale. He had a young man's beard, only potential, the hint of black whiskers along his jaw looking like something black pressed under a thick pane of smoked glass. At one point he pulled off a glove with his teeth and left it dangling from his mouth as he, what?—opened a K ration? lit a cigarette? The condemned man's last. His bare hand was as white as bone, as small as a child's.
~ Alice McDermott
I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building with people passing me on the way to classes, on the way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room. On their way to deeds they didn't know they had in them.
~ Alice Munro
The place smelled of smoke and sweat, of spilled drinks and sprayed vomit, of desperation and wasted chances
~ Joe Abercrombie
The boundaries of civilisation are not the impregnable walls civilised men take them for. As easily as smoke on the wind they can dissolve.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Compreensivelmente, talvez, os fumegantes estavam sempre à beira da histeria. Mas havia uma questão do tipo ovo ou galinha nesse fato: será que eles entravam em pânico porque seus corpos não paravam de soltar fumaça, ou será que soltavam fumaça porque suas mentes estavam em constante estado de pânico?
~ Joe Hill
Os surdos conseguem sentir cheiros que a maioria das pessoas não consegue, e eu senti o cheiro da maldade naquela fumaça.
~ Joe Hill
Miércoles, 24 de abril Una parte del vapor alto ha caído en forma de rocío. El viento del Nordeste sopla con fuerza, el contorno superior de todas las franjas nubosas se disuelve en configuraciones flameantes, incluso salen de ellas columnas aisladas, igual que el humo que sale de la comida, pero que en lo alto volvían a colocarse en estratos, como si trataran de volver a adoptar su estado anterior.
~ Johan Wolfgang Goethe
Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
~ Philip Sidney
My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe
~ Blaise Cendrars
And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?
~ Dylan Thomas
Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Okay, we can swing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you. That's pretty damn good. Unless someone's dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.
~ Eddie Izzard
More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
~ Anonymous
You might be a firefighter if you've ever smoked and there wasn't a cigarette in sight.
~ Anonymous
The bony figure of Death rides the streets below, stopping his mount now and then to peer into windows. Horns of fire on his head and smoke leaking from his nostrils and, in his skeletal hand, a list of newly charged with addresses.
~ Anthony Doerr
The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark. Smoke chases dust; ash chases smoke. A newsstand floats, burning.
~ Anthony Doerr
Marie-Laure hesitates over the open door, smelling the fires from outside and the clammy, almost opposite smell washing up from the bottom. Smoke: her great-uncle says it is a suspension of particles, billions of drifting carbon molecules. Bits of living rooms, cafés, trees. People.
~ Anthony Doerr
and evening is settling over the hundred thousand rooftops and chimneys of Paris, and all the walls around her are dissolving, the ceilings too, the whole city is disintegrating into smoke, and at last sleep falls over her like a shadow.
~ Anthony Doerr
Dar Dumnezeu e doar un ochi alb si rece, un sfert de luna atarnand deasupra fumului, clipind într-una, in timp ce oraÈ™ul e facut praf si pulbere.
~ Anthony Doerr