100+ Ashtrays Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

topic: Funny, Children, Use, Ashtrays

I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than tell them everything, you save your details for things that exist. Like what color the ashtray is. How far away the doorway was. So when you're talking about intangible things like emotions, the listener can fill in the blanks and you just draw the foundation.

- John Prine

topic: Song, Thinking, Talking, Ashtrays

We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact. We are picking up chocolate chips for days. Jon throws a glass of milk, the milk, not the glass: he knows his own strength, as I do not. He throws a box of Cheerios, unopened. The things I throw miss, although they are worse things. The things he throws hit, but are harmless. I begin to see how the line is crossed, between histrionics and murder.

- Margaret Atwood

source: Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

topic: Impact, Glasses, Doors, Chocolate Chips, Ashtrays

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

topic: Time, Past, Ready, Expressive, Ashtrays

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

- Chic Murray

topic: Ashtrays

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

source: May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.13, Open Road Media

topic: Real, Fall, Battle, Ashtrays

You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.

- David Letterman

topic: Circles, Korea, Evil, Ashtrays

Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Country, Hair, Doors, Bandits, Motels

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

- Raul Julia

topic: Book, Reading, Wife, Ashtrays, Smoking Cigars

I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

- Tom Stoppard

source: Source: www.timeout.com

topic: Eye, Hands, Years, Ashtrays

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

- Salman Rushdie

topic: Wall, House, Bed, Ashtrays

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God in his heaven who sees everything. A kitchen chair, a clothes hanger, a half-filled ashtray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can serve perfectly well as an unforgetting witness to our every deed.

- Gunter Grass

topic: Memories, Clothes, Heaven, Replica, Ashtrays

I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I already have an ashtray.

- Zach Braff

topic: Kids, Brad, Pondering, Ashtrays, Ethiopia

The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Funny, God, Humorous, Ashtrays, Starlight

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

- Henry Beard

topic: Imagine, Ashtrays

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

source: Michael Herr (2011). “Dispatches”, p.59, Vintage

topic: Animal, Blow, Vegetables, Ashtrays

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Broadway Theatre, Different, Littles, Ashtrays

Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Running, Writing, Glasses, Ashtrays

During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

- Glennon Melton

topic: Drinking, Wine, Opportunity, Stilettos, Ashtrays

A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

topic: Car, Wheels, Car Rental, Ashtrays

Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

- John Michael Hayes

topic: Honesty, Cat, Missing, Ashtrays

Whatever cleaning goes on on the planet, women do 99% of it. But see, women are not as proud of their 99% as men are of our one! We clean something up, we're gonna talk about it all year long. It might be on the news, you don't know. A woman could be out re-paving the driveway. Men actually have enough gall to run out on the porch and go "Hey baby? Man, it's hot as hell out here, ain't it! Look, don't worry about emptyin' that ashtray in the den, I done got it, all right? Did it for you, sweet pea. I'm gonna go take a nap now, all right?"

- Jeff Foxworthy

source: "You Might Be a Redneck If…". Comedy album by Jeff Foxworthy, 1993.

topic: Baby, Sweet, Men, Driveway, Sweet Peas

There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

topic: Wall, Glasses, Air, Ashtrays