Smoke Quotes

Facts interest me less than the trailing smoke of stories.

Naomi Shihab Nye
- Stories
- Smoke
- Trailing
There's no smoke without mud being flung around.

Edwina Currie
- Smoke
- Mud
- Flung

If there's no breeze, the smoke is going to hang.

Bob Farrell
- Smoke
- Breeze
- Hang
You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.

Kate Ross
Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

Elvis Costello
- Fish
- Mercury
- Rise Up
The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I'll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.

Bob Marley
- Africa
- Jamaica
- Herb
Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

Charles Dickens
- Smoke
- Stairs
- Lighted
You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.

Kathy Calvin
- Family
- Result
- Developing