Famous Tobacco Industry Quotes & Sayings

I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes. — Stanislaw Lem

Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it. — Les Baxter

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay ... but I'm not going to. — Katie Aselton

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby

When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like. — Sandra Cisneros

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other. — Salman Rushdie

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. — Arthur Peacocke

Finding meaning in the moment is what gives those meanings a value worth remembering. — Steven Redhead

And she would like to cry, but she is unable to; and she would like to disappear but she won't; and she would like to stop feeling this despair and so she thinks that she will go to the movies see friends shop eat barter fuck the neighbor's husband: she is like a sow in her mud (of loneliness) and covers herself in it and what of it--it is the disease of her country, and the late night television shows the magazines and movies in cheap collusion with it. — Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this. — William G. Boykin

She wasn't being methodological. She was being autobiographical. — Stephen L. Carter

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there. — Richard P. Feynman

Trust is not about being comfortable. It is about being willing to move beyond your comfort zone when there is absolutely no evidence you will be supported. Think of it this way. Trust is based on your ability to stand your ground and rely on your own abilities, knowing that no matter what happens, you will be better off than you were in the beginning. — Iyanla Vanzant

All I did was die,' I said. 'And then, when presented with an opportunity not to be dead any more, I took it. Anyone else would have done the same thing. — Meg Cabot