Light A Cigarette Quotes

#1. No, you don't look at the cigarette, you look at me. When you light a cigarette you have to look the person in the eyes.

Ann Patchett

#2. I wake up around noon, light a cigarette, get a cup of coffee, sit in the bathtub for an hour and daydream, and I usually come up with some ideas ... It's a very irresponsible life. The only decisions I make are about the notes I'm writing.

Hans Zimmer

#3. At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

Erich Maria Remarque

#4. Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#5. One of my hobbies is discovering Universal laws. Here's one: if you light a cigarette, the bus always comes immediately. I have tested this theory many years, its a golden rule. If you light the cigarette, the bus ALWAYS comes.

Martijn Benders

#6. I was going to light a cigarette in their flames, like I was the cool girl in Heathers ...

Rainbow Rowell

#7. There's so much I should say, so many things I should tell him, but in the end I tell him nothing.
I cut a line and my losses, and I light a cigarette.

Clint Catalyst

#8. The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

Roger Zelazny

#10. You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.

Laurie Anderson

#11. It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

Dylan Moran

#12. I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

Vin Scully

#13. And the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the moon, in through the clefts in the curtains, is much like my spirit trying to escape the burn of yesterday's presence.

Kellie Elmore

#14. He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red blood, separated through some fortune and shame in the way of humanity.

Anthony Liccione

#15. One cannot even light a casual cigarette unless the artistic permission of the universe is freely given!

J.D. Salinger

#16. One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

Anna Held

#17. Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

Henry James

#18. Vic's father was badass. Other dads built things. Hers blew shit up and rode away on a Harley, smoking the cigarette he used to light the fuse. Top that.

Joe Hill

#19. What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

#20. He treats females like he does a cigarette; light it, use it, and lose it.

Cora Hawkes

#21. I hold the cigarette like i'm in a black-and-white movie.
but when jed lights the match, it spreads to color,
his skin in the campfire light, the spark of his eyes
as he leans in to me

David Levithan

#22. He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette burns. Weeds and spit and oil. Place like this, the only glitter was the knife just before it sank in. Place like this, there wasn't any gold.

Rupert Thomson

#23. There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that.

Harold Robbins

#24. The cigarette hung unlit from his lips. Was he doomed to roam forever in his ghost state, always wanting to light that cigarette? A small twinge of satisfaction rolled through me at the thought of him in permanent nicotine withdrawal.

Deanna Chase

#25. I thought of To Kill a Mockingbird. I had finished reading it one night in a bunker, my knees bent and hunched together while mortars hit the ground, the glow of a cigarette and the moon as my only light. Standing there now, chain-smoking, I felt like I finally understood the ending.

Michael Anthony

#26. Come over here and light me a cigarette," she'd said. I'd snuck a little inhale, and my mother had smiled. But then she'd said, "Don't get started with something you won't be able to do without.

Elizabeth Berg

#27. A cigarette is like a hamster, harmless until you stick it in your mouth and light it on fire.

Jim Pickens

#28. A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#29. Dull late-afternoon light glittered on the hanging copper pots in the kitchen where the old painter sat with his wine, smoking cigarette, a letter angrily crumpled on the table in front of him.

Stephanie Cowell