In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Shannon: What happened to all the ashtrays in this town?
I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.
I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he's dumb as an ashtray.
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
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.
I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
The girl didn't notice that her boyfriend's head had transformed into a big microphone. So when she whispered her secrets into his ear, her words echoed trough the city. In her embarrassment, she ran out of the house to hide somewhere. And what she s...
A hobo walks by in a suit made of today's newspaper. A guy chases him, shouting. "Wait! I haven't read the business section yet!" Oh, the economic news. The most honest, trustworthy, freshest goods you can get—apart from ripe fish. With its gorgeou...
Every now and then, a small plane arrives from nowhere – as tiny as the head of a match-stick – it flies around my head, buzzing, like a pesky little fly, then disappears into my ear. Later, it lands on my throbbing heart. Excited tourists get ou...
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
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.
all people start to come apart finally and there it is: just empty ashtrays in a room or wisps of hair on a comb in the dissolving moonlight.
School Bully: I'll tell you how to get four people into a mini. Two in the back, two in the front and your Dad in the ashtray!
I keep my love for her in the ashtray, along with the other stuff she burnt.
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.
[first lines] Tony: Allora, come stai, Leone? Léon: Bene. [Tony puts out his cigarette in an ashtray] Tony: OK. OK. Let's talk business.
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.
My ashtray is full, the carton of cigarettes is empty, and I just cremated grandpa. But I never inhaled—or told him I loved him.
Winny didn't know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn't smoke and never would.
I never was one to go into an office and write. For one thing, I had a job. I was cleaning the ashtrays and setting up the studios at Columbia for a couple of years and working every other week down in the Gulf of Mexico flying helicopters. I didn't ...
