Quotes of: Smoke-and-mirrors Keyword

Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of life. The tales themselves make use of a similarly wide range of forms and styles, which show the diversity ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though yo...

The Prophet

So, how is it that you don’t have a girlfriend?” I asked boldly. Joel shrugged. “Have you ever had a girlfriend?” There was no way that he’d never had a girlfriend. He shrugged again. “You’re not serious.” “You’re surprised?” �...

Volition

Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away and went on reading. Julie, however, was not flattering her friend: indeed, the princess's eyes, large, de...

War and Peace

Eddie Valiant: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that in a fit of jealousy you wrote your wife a love letter? Roger Rabbit: That's right! I knew that she was just an innocent victim of circumstance. Eddie Valiant: I suppose you used t...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

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

Gone Girl

And so, she turned her back on the abyss for another day.

Bury Me In Smoke

On the porch were the still-smoking remains of long-stemmed roses, evidence that someone angry and passive-aggressive didn't know Peter was out of town.

Byuck

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

Brendan Behan

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.

Stijn Streuvels

Add smoke, not fire. You want to confuse your competition, not kill them.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

...So you can put that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Busybody Holmes.

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

Not all of your foes will appear in their true form. You must learn to trust your instincts.

Amber Smoke

That smoke you smell is me frying your brains every time we kiss longer than twenty-three seconds.

Hold Tight

If finding a woman in your bed is so distressing, magus, you should rethink the direction your life’s taken.

Iron and Smoke

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

John Dies at the End

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

Seraphic Addiction

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

The Lady Elizabeth

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

Lover Unbound

I watched a truck go up in flames. It was hauling cigarettes. It was the first tragedy I’ve ever smoked. 

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