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  • Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

  • I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.

    Dumb   Biden   Spots  
    "Roger Ailes: Obama Is ‘Lazy,’ Biden ‘Dumb As an Ashtray’" by Bill Hoffmann, www.newsmax.com. March 6, 2013.
  • A rental car is basically an ashtray on wheels.

    Car   Wheels   Car Rental  
    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
  • 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.

  • After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

    Past   Empty   Heavy  
    "Dominion", (p. 10), October 4, 1993.
  • My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.

  • 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.

    Book   Reading   Wife  
  • 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.

    Song   Thinking   Color  
  • 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.

    Kids   Brad   Pondering  
  • Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

  • 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.

    Wall   Glasses   Air  
    KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”
  • Grab something off the shelf that's on the spaceship-an ashtray, it doesn't matter what. Because I can tell you, if they flew here from another galaxy, no matter what you've pulled off the shelf, it'll be unlike anything we have on Earth.

    Earth   Matter   Aliens  
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

    Life   Men   Enemy  
  • In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  • I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

  • 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 (2011). “Dispatches”, p.59, Vintage
  • We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

    Funny   Humor   Luxury  
  • I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

    Ashtrays   Smoke  
  • 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.

    Country   Hair   Doors  
  • 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.

    Funny   God   Humorous  
    P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

    Progress   Suits   Thrown  
  • 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.

  • Junior colleges are high schools with 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.

    Impact   Glasses   Doors  
    Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam
  • British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!

    Funny   Children   Humor  
    "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.
  • We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

    Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Honesty   Cat   Missing  
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