Quotes About Ashtrays

#1. Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

Michael Herr

#2. Some lady at a bridge party somewhere started the rumor that to test the honesty of a cleaning woman you leave little rosebud ashtrays around with loose change in them, here and there. My solution to this is to always add a few pennies, even a dime.

Lucia Berlin

#3. In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

Marian Keyes

#4. We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

Chic Murray

#5. All people start to
come apart finally
and there it is:
just empty ashtrays in a room
or wisps of hair on a comb
in the dissolving moonlight.

Charles Bukowski

#6. There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.

May Sarton

#7. Winny didn't know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn't smoke and never would.

Dean Koontz

#8. You are only as deep
as the ashtrays you use. You only stick around because you like the abuse.

Kris Kidd

#9. Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

Adam Carolla

#10. Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled 'the past,' and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#11. There were no ashtrays and no sign of my philosophic cowpoke. I sensed he had been heading this way and most likely, spotting the spanking new paint job, just kept on going. I looked around. Nothing to hold me here, either, not even the dried carcass of a dead bee.

Patti Smith

#12. The lounge is empty of bodies but full of debris: wineglasses, ashtrays, food wrappers, and a pair of silk boxer shorts over the Boer War rifle

David Mitchell

#13. My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

Casey Affleck

#14. Every problem comes with an equal or greater opportunity

Napoleon Hill

#15. I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.

Virginia Woolf

#16. Here's the thing, Brian. From across the room, I'll admit death looks like a real babe. But I've been close enough to see what's under her makeup, and no thanks. Really.

Mishell Baker

#17. The more each nation contributes to world society from the wealth of its own aptitudes, its own race, and its own traditions, the greater the future development and happiness of mankind will be.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

#18. Without Courage, Hope is a Universal liar.

Sahithi Setikam

#19. surrender to the strident sunshine, it

Bobby Adair

#20. There must be freedom while we are still very young - not freedom to do what we like, but freedom to understand very deeply our own instincts and urges.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#21. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.

Karleen Koen

#22. I keep begging myself to stop, and I keep playing, and this gap, this contradiction between what I want to do and what I actually do, feels like the core of my life

Andre Agassi

#23. Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.

Laurie Notaro

#24. Men of intellect did not, as a rule, bring home stray women who insisted on flinging themselves on horses.

Katie MacAlister

#25. After allthe events of the previous summer he was more prtective then ever,and i whanted to be sure i knew the rules i'd be likely to break once we arrived in bridewell.

Patrick Carman

#26. I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

Henry Beard