Tobacco Road Quotes

#1. The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

James Thurber

#2. I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#3. OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

David Hockney

#4. I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.

Vincent Van Gogh

#5. If his Russian was music, his English was murder.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

Peter York

#7. You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

Lewis Hamilton

#8. I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.

Breckin Meyer

#9. Don't let 'em see they killed you!

Henry V. O'Neil

#10. Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.

Robert Jeffress

#11. I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

Lia Ices

#12. Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.

Charles Duhigg

#13. I'm so clever, I don't understand half of the things I'm saying.

Oscar Wilde

#14. Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. People want to believe.

Robert Ferrigno

#16. Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit,
For works may have more with than does 'em good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.

Alexander Pope

#17. I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.

Aaron Sorkin

#18. A nature of fire is to burn, nature of water is to cool, and nature of Nature itself is to preserve.

Santosh Kalwar