Big Smoke's Quotes

#1. Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.

Dan Levitan

#2. The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

William Hutton

#3. As a winner, learn not to let negative comments affect you. Just treat it as firewood that feeds your fire. Soon that fire will be so big and so bright that those who criticized you will smell the smoke, even if they happen to be on the other side of the world.

Kevin Abdulrahman

#4. Technological measures are important, but equally important is ... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.

Vaclav Havel

#5. Safety was not a big thing when I was growing up. A seat belt was something that got in the way: 'Ma, the seat belt is digging into my back.' 'Stuff it down into the seat. And roll those windows up, you're letting the smoke out'

Margaret Smith

#6. He kisses her. She kisses him. They kiss.

Lisa McMann

#7. Everything I know about bombs tells me they are built to explode. But something must set them off first. There must be a trigger before the noise goes off, before the big burst of bright, choking smoke. Otherwise a girl could stay quiet for years.

Nova Ren Suma

#8. I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.

Mario Lemieux

#9. Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.

Michael Nesmith

#10. There's some sorta big bar-be-que goin' on here in turn three. There's smoke all over the track! Some fan's got a big one goin' on.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

#11. I never did smoke that much pot; never was a big pothead.

Tommy Chong

#12. The darkness declares the glory of the light.

T. S. Eliot

#13. Maybe they had become volcano smoke jumpers, diving into an unknown risk to do a dangerous job because, in part, it was a social good and, in part, because they loved the big show.

Dick Thompson

#14. i had a
big smile
on my face
as i burned
the bridges
to all the things
i could not
repair

-does the smoke still choke you?

Amanda Lovelace

#15. Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and oatmeal. There's so many things, you have to learn to appreciate it all. When I don't eat as much as I should, I'm not fun to be around; I'm fussy.

Nina Dobrev

#16. It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.

Elie Wiesel

#17. After all those years of doing remote detonations, where we just push a button and something explodes, to actually see a nice big fat line of black smoke heading toward something that will blow up is very satisfying.

Adam Savage

#18. Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.

Frank Zappa

#19. Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

Iris Chang

#20. When I was writing my first novel, I smoked cigarettes. And when I think about what it was like to smoke, I remember exactly the feeling of sitting in front of my big old computer in that little room where I wrote my first novel.

Dani Shapiro

#21. How was it that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this - smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky?

Truman Capote

#22. We, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we cannot tie down, though we grasp at their hair, though we rope them while they sleep

Salman Rushdie

#23. Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women.
I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy.

Rick Majerus

#24. Yeah, man. It's time to let de people get good herbs and smoke. Government's a joke. All dey wan' is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can't smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit', God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb.

Bob Marley

#25. I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.

Max Pam

#26. A man does not die for something which he himself does not believe in.

Adolf Hitler

#27. The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this calmness and that's the main attraction to it. That's why I do these death-consequence pursuits or arts.

Dean Potter

#28. Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks a day.

Kinky Friedman

#29. Big house, 4 whips, hella tattoos
Smoke good and ya bro think I'm bad news
Bout to go nuts, nigga, Cashews
A bro ask me if I'm book I say I'm past due

Wiz Khalifa

#30. The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.

Lev Yashin

#31. I'm not a big drinker and I don't smoke either. I've only been drunk a few times, but I did moon my friend once. I had knickers on! I'll leave the real mooning to the boys.

Nikki Sanderson

#32. Facts cling to photographs like dust.

Andy Grundberg

#33. From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

Joe Eszterhas

#34. A big cigar was jammed in the corner of his wide mouth. Blue-gray smoke wafted to the ceiling rafters, curling around the big wagon-wheel chandelier like ghostly tendrils.

Kymber C. Hawke

#35. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snowflakes - gone into mourning, one might imagine, for the death of the sun.

Charles Dickens

#36. Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#37. Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#38. I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it in everything - vinaigrettes, soups, stocks, salsas, so I'm always on the hunt for great honey.

Bobby Flay

#39. The superior Christian lets God strip him of everything that might serve as a false refuge, a secondary trust.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#40. He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.

Rebecca McNutt

#41. If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down and smoke that baby. II

Stephen King

#42. One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

Valerie June