If someone burns out your eye I will take your socket and…

British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!

— Jimmy Carr

“Once he inserted a bodkin – a long needle of the sort used for sewing leather – into his eye socket and rubbed it…

— Bill Bryson

“OK, open your mouth. This won’t hurt.” Yorsabrim stretched his mouth open. He had been having some indigestion problems lately. The doctor inched forward…

— Vincent Pet

“The quickest way to a man's heart,' said the instructor, 'is proverbially through his stomach. But if you want to get into his brain,…

— K.J. Parker

“When I find that stubbornness continually overrides common sense regardless of the logic of my argument, it seems that the only effective solution is…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

— Allison Mackie

“I am the kid who sticks her finger in the light socket. I am the person who doesn't check the expiration date on the…

— Amy Garvey

“One eye had been torn from its socket.”

— Dean Koontz

“She’s finished her cigarette but hasn’t put it out properly, so it’s still smoking in the ashtray. I crush mine into it, grinding until…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She reached into an alabaster box and pulled out a violet cigarette that also exactly matched her eyes. Some people just don't know when…

— Gary K. Wolf

“Six pull-tabs lay in the ashtray like scales from a mermaid.”

— Haruki Murakami

“My mother, sitting at the kitchen table, the steam rising from her cup entwining with the smoke curling from her cigarette resting on an…

— Patti Smith

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

— Damien Hirst

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

— Dusty Hill

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

— Tom Stoppard