Kinky Friedman Quotes

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

Study the history of almost any criminal and you find an inveterate cigarette smoker

Victory will never be found by taking the line of least resistance.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

Everyone wants to be an overcomer, but nobody wants anything to overcome.

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement!

I've had every known chemical - cocaine, booze - and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

Mr Howard Saxby, literary agent, was knitting a sock. He knitted a good deal, he would tell you if you asked him, to keep himself from smoking, adding that he also smoked a good deal to keep himself from knitting.

I only eat so that I can smoke and stay alive.

Problems are God's resistance to create spiritual muscles.

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

The leaders that the world admires seem almost all to be people who haven't had things quite so smooth or easy in their lives.

...the elephant smoked too much.