Ashtrays Quote by Anna Akhmatova Download Open image “Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.” — Anna Akhmatova ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ashtrays Beautiful Bitter Hands Ritual
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive. — Jean Jaures Copy Share Image
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention. — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“That is why we love this city – Dark and stern, and full of water, And we love our separations, And brief moments when… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“ In Dream Black and enduring separation I share equally with you. Why weep? Gove me your hand, promise me you will come again.… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“But don’t raise your eyes in defiance, Protect my life, my dear. They’re brighter than first violets, But deadly to me, I fear.” — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray! — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
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… — John Michael Hayes Copy Share Image
We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements. — Chic Murray Copy Share Image
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… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray. — Martin de Maat Copy Share Image
I smoke too much whether it's going well or badly. After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
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