I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.
A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'
I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.
I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was cooler than Chandler. He was leftwing, his name shortened to Dash rather than Ray, and he didn't smoke a pipe or like cats.
Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want.
'Daughter of Smoke and Bone' is one of my all-time top YA fantasy trilogies, so I was a little nervous about reading 'Strange the Dreamer.' Of course, I shouldn't have been worried because Laini Taylor immediately grabbed me by the proverbial lapels and refused to let me go.
But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.
One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.
I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun.
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
I don't smoke, drink, do drugs or even have affairs. If I don't even swear, I should be put in a shrine and sanctified.
I loved being a troublemaker. At Santa Monica High, I would smoke on campus, go barefoot, anything.
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
