And of a Sunday swarm the folkUnder the honeysuckle vine, Quaffing, the while they talk and smoke, The sun, the melody, the wine.

~ Théophile Gautier

Théophile Gautier Folk Honeysuckle Melody Smoke Sun Sunday Wine

A few flat clouds folded themselves like crepes over fillings of apricot sky. Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, above the slate rooftops. Chestnut blossoms, weary from having been admired all day, wore faint smiles of anticipation.

~ Tom Robbins

Tom Robbins Clouds Flowers Sky Smoke

What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?

~ Ellen Hopkins

Ellen Hopkins Hero Smoke Villain

Smoke and mirrors’ is a useful metaphor for the ways in which organised abuse has chided conceptualisation and understanding. The chapter provides an overview of cite often incendiary debates over organised abuse before going on to suggest that critical theories on gender, crime and intersubjectivity may offer new insights into the phenomenon.

~ Michael Salter

Michael Salter Chilsd Abuse Hidden Metaphor Mirror Organised Abuse Pedophile Rings Ritualised Abuse Smoke

My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Katherine Mcintyre Post Apocalyptic Questions Scary Smoke Smoking Terrified

Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair.

~ Laura Gentile

Laura Gentile Birds Flowers Hair Heat Smoke

Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

M.f. Moonzajer Ashes Forever Pain Smoke

My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out smoke. Like a volcano. Like a monster. I want to fume. I do not want to be the girl whose job it is to wail in a high-pitched voice at funerals.

~ Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy Deborah Levy Girl Hot Milk Smoke

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

~ Gillian Flynn

Gillian Flynn Cancer Cigarette Cigarettes Death Inevitable Smoke Smoking

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

~ Charles Kettering

Charles Kettering Smoke Right Through

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

~ John Calvin

John Calvin Knowledge Smoke Christ

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

~ George Burns

George Burns Day Smoke Hold

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Cigar Smoke Moderation

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

~ Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell Work Smoke Drink

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli Bullying Fire Smoke

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

~ Ezekiel Elliott

Ezekiel Elliott Run Smoke Through

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

~ Zebulon Pike

Zebulon Pike Nation Smoke Become