Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benny Hill

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Ron Hilliard

It's just a matter of time that somebody throws a cigarette down the road and the wind is blowing.

John Lacey

They got a nice attitude. They dropped by the other day and gave me a cigarette lighter.

Paul Burns

It's one important way we can save lives in Vermont. We would expect that these cigarettes would reduce the incidence of tobacco-related fires in the state.

Bruce Mirken

Prohibition doesn't work, and again, they've put the evidence right there showing that responsible regulation has hugely reduced cigarette use.

Augusten Burroughs

It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.

Robert Shapiro

(D)id you tell Larry Fiato that ... that you went to Rockingham because O.J. was a suspect, the husband is always a suspect, on the 18th floor of the balcony while smoking a cigarette in February of this year?

Daniel Becker

This new standard is like telling a two-pack-a-day smoker to cut out one cigarette a day.

Douglas Adams

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

Gernot Nerb

We still think a trough should be reached in the first quarter but to be sure we get a recovery, we should see expectations improving in January or February at the latest.

Richard Calhoun

Offers accepted, or initiated sales (for single-family homes) were way down also, at only 811 (for January 2006). Only January 2001 had fewer, at 761. So 811 is significant and it means February closings will be way down.

Mike Listerman

The month of February was a really good month. The most important thing is what we do in the next two weeks.

Carl Neill

RSI reached the lowest level ever in the history of the February contract.

Liu Yu

The stipulation indicates the regulator may resume initial public offerings in Shanghai in the first quarter of next year, probably sometime in February after the Spring Festival.

Royal Mail

I've been doing this round for more than 23 years. I started in February 1982 and over the years I have made a lot of friends.

Peter Gilmour

The whole legal issue has been a distraction, but since February we've really tried to isolate the sailing team from it,

Dale Tallon

This isn't a good thing, with February being hockey time. It's one of the pitfalls of this year's schedule and the Olympics, but we've got to live with it.

Lee Lewis

that she's taking all those people's money. Jerry Lee told her back in February that he was not participating in the party this year. So she's known since then.

Jason Cook

We want to show people what search-and-recovery teams go through. The windows are the floors, and the floors are the walls. Their world is literally turned upside down.

Thomas Hardy

Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.

Lazarus Sims

We have to guard them like they have to guard us. They have to prove it. They have to step on the floor the same night we have to step on the floor.

John Hammond

Watching those guys on our own floor every day, working with our guys, that's as good as it gets. There is something to be said for accountability, for actually seeing guys every day.

Allan Ray

When I was on that floor and couldn't see anything, that was one of the first things I was thinking about, I'd probably be blind. I thought I was. I couldn't see anything. Everything was burning. Pretty much, my life just flashed in front of me.

Jim Schaffer

Wood floors are a good value and you usually recoup what you put into it.

Gail Goestenkors

Throughout the game, we had a lot of hustle plays, no matter what the score was. We got on the floor all night long, and that's what need to do.

Kristi LaFleur

A lot of people have thought we weren't going to make it all year long. So the girls psychologically wanted to go out on our home floor and prove them wrong.

Brian Robertson

A member of the leadership told the congressman on the floor he would regret this vote.

Charles Caleb Colton

Villains are usually the worst casuists, and rush into crimes to avoid less. Henry VIII. committed murder to avoid the imputation of adultery; and in our times, those who commit the latter crime attempt to wash off the stain of seducing the wife by signifying their readiness to shoot the husband.

Charles Dickens

I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

Charles Spurgeon

But you are not under a system similar to that by which the Jews were obliged to pay tithes to the priests. If there were any such rule laid down in the Gospel, it would destroy the beauty of spontaneous giving and take away all the bloom from the fruit of your liberality! There is no law to tell me what I should give my father on his birthday. There is no rule laid down in any law book to decide what present a husband should give to his wife, nor what token of affection we should bestow upon others whom we love. No, the gift must be a free one, or it has lost all its sweetness.

Alan Bradley

My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.

Alan Bennett

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

Akshay Kumar

I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.

Chris Cleave

On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.

David Brinkley

In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

August Strindberg

The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to miss Larry Brown, but so many times it was just about Larry. It was always, 'Larry did this, Larry did that,' with the result that I don't think the players got enough credit.

Marion Berry

This is an accomplishment more attributed to Larry Williams and the leadership of this community,

Theo Epstein

For about 14 years, we've had a very successful working relationship, ... I think Larry and I like each other. As with any long-term relationship, there are complexities. There are ups and downs. There are times when you have philosophical differences. But I owe him quite a bit.

Eric Snow

They are pushing the tempo more. Whenever you do that, you get more possessions. Under Larry Brown, they were more of an opportunistic fast-break team. Now, they are trying to run more.

Mike Browning

This isn't a negative, but he's not Larry Hughes. They're similar-type players, but he's not Larry Hughes.

Michael Storm

Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show.

Lou Dawkins

The other night I told Larry he doesn't have to score every possession. He should be getting double-digit rebounds and some assists.

LeBron James

He's probably going to play Tuesday. To play at the level we're playing and to get Larry back, wow. That's all I can say about that.

Greg Norman

I didn't think Larry would get down in two, and I was right. He got down in one.

Charles Dickens

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

David Hockney

There would be no bohemia without smoking.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

John Green

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

Charles Lamb

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Charles Lamb

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Benjamin Franklin

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

David Sedaris

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.