Smoking Quotes

• Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Society
  • Relationship
  • Sick

• If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Nice

• It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's face.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Great
  • Actors
  • Blow

• I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Painting
  • Director
  • Move

• I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.

  

  Claire Forlani
  • Smoking

• If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

  

  David Paradine Frost
  • People
  • Up
  • Gun

• I was walking through Central Park, and I saw an old man smoking. Nothing makes a smoker happier than to see an old person smoking. This guy was ancient, bent over a walker, puffing away. I'm like, 'Duuude, you're my hero! Guy your age smoking, man, it's great.' He goes, 'What? I'm 28.'

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Great
  • Age
  • Guy

• Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Up
  • Real
  • Rest

• Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Science
  • Food
  • Chinese

• I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Environment

• I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

  

  Richard Thompson
  • Reason
  • Anything
  • Smoking

• You grew up, we grew up B.C. Before crack. That's just saying it all. You understand? You don't have parents... You have young kids, fourteen, coming home and their mama is smoking out, going to their best friend to get the product.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Friend

• I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • Judgment
  • Contributes

• If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • Stop
  • Church
  • Drinking

• If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

  

  Clement Freud
  • Up
  • Live
  • Drinking

• Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no debate about that. The link is as certain as the link between smoking and cancer.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Cancer
  • Smoking

• I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Long
  • She

• Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • Drinking
  • Boxing
  • Smoking

• I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Trying
  • She
  • Mom

• I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Control
  • Planet
  • Landscape

• Once you are hooked, smoking is harder to quit then heroin.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Harder
  • Quitting
  • Heroin

• If you smoke, plain and simple, stop smoking. If you drink, plain and simple, stop.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Stop
  • Simple
  • Smoking

• I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Friend

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