Zippo Quotes

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This Zippo read, 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil.. for I'm the baddest motherfucker in the valley.
Paullina Simons (The Summer Garden (The Bronze Horseman, #3))
Stepping back, Anika smiled at her prisoners and clicked open the Zippo. Its flame hopped to life. Wasting no time, she underhand-tossed the lighter through the air. It hit the middle of its target, and the banner exploded into flames. 
Chad Boudreaux (Homecoming Queen)
You're a firestarter honey...just one big Zippo lighter
Stephen King (Firestarter)
Climbing back into bed, I lay there and flicked the Zippo open and closed, filling the room with a flame for a man I shouldn’t have. Before I snuffed it out.
Danielle Lori (The Sweetest Oblivion (Made, #1))
In the next days it took little provocation for us to flick the flint of our Zippo lighters. Thatched roofs take the flame quickly, and on bad days the hamlets of Pinkville burned, taking our revenge in fire. It was good to walk from Pinkville and to see fire behind Alpha Company. It was good, just as pure hate is good.
Tim O'Brien (If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home)
Dan opened the Zippo and lit the fuse. It hissed for half a seconds, then the rocket shot screaming away. Crack! "Over there!" One of the kidnappers shouted. Amy started to rise. "Let's go!" "Wait," Dan said, aiming the second rocket. "It's a two-part plan." He lit the fuse and the rocket shot off in the direction of the would-be kidnappers. "Auuuurrrrgghh!" "Run now!" Dan said. Amy and Dan burst from the dumpster and scrambled for the entrance of the lot. Looking behind him, Dan saw that one of the kidnappers was frantically fanning his butt, which was smoking slightly. "Part two was completely unnecessary, wasn't it?" Amy yelled as they ran. "Yup!
Clifford Riley (Legacy (The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire, #1))
Jordana is in the umpire's highchair. I walk under the rugby posts and on to the tennis courts, stopping a few metres in front of her, in the service box. Her legs are crossed. I wait for her to speak. 'I have two special skills,' she says. She pulls a sheaf of papers from under her bum. I recognize the font and the text boxes. It's my pamphlet. 'Blackmail,' she says. She holds up her Zippo in the other hand. I can tell that she has been practising this. 'And pyromania.' I am impressed that Jordana knows this word. 'Right,' I say. 'I'm going to blackmail you, Ol.' I feel powerless. She is in a throne. 'Okay,' I say.
Joe Dunthorne (Submarine)
That was a temporary setback,” Zippo said. “If you call an opportunity to take stock and really think about how you can make your life better a ‘setback.
Colson Whitehead (Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1))
Is right that ugly plastic statue of Paul Bunyan in front of City Center? Oh, if I had a truckful of napalm and my old Zippo lighter I’d take care of that fucking thing, I assure you . . .
Stephen King (It)
I lit fires because I didn’t know back then it was enough to see it in my head,” Zippo said. “I didn’t have to do it. That’s why people dig my boudoir photographs. Seeing it can be the same thing as doing it.
Colson Whitehead (Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1))
I began to have fantasies in which I walked to the centre of a huge field surrounded by forest with trees a mile high, emptied several cans of petrol everywhere, threw a lit Zippo into the grass and then stood in the middle of it waiting to be immolated.
Mark Lanegan (Devil in a Coma)
He’s wasted gallons of paint thinner striking his faithful Zippo, its charred wick, virility giving way to thrift, rationed down to a little stub, the blue flame sparking about the edges in the dark, the many kinds of dark, just to see what’s happening with her face. Each new flame, a new face.
Thomas Pynchon
Frankly, the racial-harmony shit put Pepper on edge. The majority of the film crew were hippie freaks, but Zippo and the director of photography and Angela, the lady who did the wardrobe and makeup, were black. The white people did what they were told. This was America, melting pot and powder keg. Surely something was about to pop off. It kept not happening. Pepper had never worked jobs with white people before. Pulling shit in Newark, then uptown in those days, that was the reality. It was not done. Occasionally he'd get asked to join a crew with a white wheelman or a bankroll and that was a sign to wait for the next gig. His current refusals were simple common sense. Pepper barely trusted Negro crooks--why extend the courtesy to some cracker motherfucker who'd fuck you over first chance? Sometimes black people fell over themselves trying to vouch for a white man who hadn't wronged them. Yet.
Colson Whitehead (Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2))
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probably get any guy at McKinley High, but there was only one boy she wanted holding her books. She listened for the sound of the Zippo. She turned to look down the hall. Gray felt someone staring at her, but it turned out to be the daggers from Charlene’s eyes prickling the back of her head. Charlene had her locker door open, but she faced into the hallway, glaring at Gray. Gray unzipped a small pouch on her bag and pulled out the pendant. Hopefully, Raj and Adrian were wearing
Nikki Jefford (Entangled (Spellbound, #1))
The book explains – and, perhaps more importantly, photographically illustrates – death of human beings by all sorts of means. Gunshot, knife, bludgeon, stomping, strangulation, automobile collisions and auto-pedestrian strikes, death by fire, and more are thoroughly covered. When opposing counsel says of your opponent, “He only had a knife (or stick, or bottle)”… “He was unarmed!”… ”He was just driving his car!”…”He was only standing there with an ordinary can of gasoline and an ordinary Zippo lighter!”… …I would like you to be able to honestly say, “Counselor, in that moment I knew what he could do to me. My mind flashed back to pictures I had seen of someone stabbed/clubbed/stomped/run over/burned to death. I pictured my mother or my spouse having to identify me looking like that on a slab in the morgue, and I knew I had to stop him.” There
Massad Ayoob (Deadly Force - Understanding Your Right To Self Defense)
I am Sebastiano, and your name?” he asks. “Violet,” I say as we step over the threshold. “Violetta!” he says, throwing his arms wide. “English girl, Italian name!” And across the room, I see a dark head turn in our direction. That much taller than the rest of the boys, he stands out, his straight black silky hair falling over his face, his blue eyes as bright and cold as the water of the fjord next to my grandmother’s summer rental cottage. I was looking for him before and couldn’t see him anywhere; now that I’ve been distracted by dancing and a Chianti-drinking donkey, he’s spotted me. His gaze flicks like a knife between me and the boy, who’s at the gigantic wine bottle now, filling cups and handing me one. “Salute!” Sebastiano says, touching his cup to mine, and I glance up at Luca, seeing that he’s taking this in, too. A rush of confusion fills me as I toast. I’m glad that Luca’s seen me with someone else, that I haven’t been a wallflower at this party, that I’ve proved him wrong, even a little bit, because there’s a boy here who seems to like me, who’s talking to me, anyway, getting me a drink. In films, in books, flirting with a boy is a surefire way to get the one you actually like interested in you, draw him over to your side. They’re supposed to like competition, the challenge of going after a girl who’s popular. But maybe real life doesn’t quite work that way. Because Luca arches one black eyebrow, his mouth quirks up on one side in a sneer, and he turns pointedly away sliding a cigarette into his mouth, and lighting it with a flip of his Zippo. Disgusting habit, I think as firmly as I can. I’m glad he’s not coming over, smoking a nasty stinking cancer stick. It’s awful when you lie to yourself. I do think smoking is foul, but I’m also more than aware that if Luca strolled over to talk to me, with that cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, I wouldn’t walk away, complaining about the smoke; I’d stand there staring up at him, trying not to grin as widely as a five-year-old meeting Cinderella at Disneyland.
Lauren Henderson (Flirting in Italian (Flirting in Italian #1))
Alan Beaumont stepped through the automatic door of his office building and down the broad steps to the pavement. The sky above DC was a monochrome of grey cloud. A light rain fell, but a few drops of water were not going to bother him. Damp clothes? Whatever. Messed-up hair? He had no hair to ruin. That was long gone. Nothing had helped retain those once-magnificent curls. Not pills. Not potions. Nada. He used a thumb and middle finger to snap open his Zippo lighter and lit the cigarette perched between his lips. Smoking was perhaps the only real pleasure he had. He watched the downtown traffic and the pedestrians pass by, all miserable. Good. He didn’t like anyone to be happy but himself. It wasn’t pure selfishness. Joy was a zero sum game. There just wasn’t enough to go around.
Tom Wood (The Darkest Day (Victor the Assassin, #5))
Zippo with the words if you can’t fix it, burn it engraved on
Caroline Peckham (The Death Club (Dead Men Walking, #1))
Já estava acostumado aos amputados, às vitimas do agente laranja, aos famintos, pobres, garotos de rua de seis anos de idade que você encontra às três da madrugada gritando "Feliz ano novo! Olá! Bye-Bye!" em inglês, e depois aponta para suas bocas e faz "bum bum?". Estou ficando quase indiferente aos garotos famintos, sem pernas, sem braços, cobertos de cicatrizes, desesperançados, dormindo no chão, em triciclos, na beirada do rio. Mas não estava preparado para o homem sem camisa, com um corte de cabelo a la forma de pudim, que me detém na saída do mercado, estendendo a mão. No passado ele sofreu queimaduras e tornou-se uma figura humana quase irreconhecível, a pele transformada numa imensa cicatriz sob a coroa de cabelos pretos. Da cintura para cima (e sabe Deus até onde), a pele é uma cicatriz só; ele não tem lábios, nem nariz, nem sobrancelha. Suas orelhas são como betume, como se tivesse mergulhado e moldado num alto-forno, sendo retirado pouco antes de derreter por completo. Mexe seus dentes como uma abóbora de Halloween, mas não emite um único som através do que foi um dia, uma boca. Sinto um murro no estômago. Minha animação exuberante dos dias e horas anteriores desmorona. Fico paralisado, piscando e pensando na palavra napalm, que oprime cada batida do meu coração. De repente nada mais é divertido. Sinto vergonha. Como pude vir até esta cidade, até este país por razões tão fúteis, cheio de entusiasmo por algo tão...sem sentido, como sabores, texturas, culinária? A famíla daquele homem deve ter sido pulverizada, ele mesmo transformado num boneco desgraçado, como um modelo de cera de madame Tussaud, a pele escorrendo como vela pingando. O que estou fazendo aqui? Escrevendo um livro de merda? Sobre comida? Fazendo um programinha leve e inútil de tevê, um showzinho de bosta? A ficha caiu de uma vez e fiquei me desprezando, odiando o que faço e o fato de estar ali. Imobilizado, piscando nervosamente e suando frio, sinto que todo mundo na rua está me observando, que irradio culpa e desconforto, que qualquer passante vai associar os ferimentos daquele homem a mim e ao meu país. Dou uma espiada nos outros turistas ocidentais que vagueiam por ali com suas bermudas da Banana Republic e suas camisas pólo da Land´s End, suas confortáveis sandálias Weejun e Bierkenstock, e sinto um desejo irracional de assassiná-los. Parecem malignos, comedores de carniça. O Zippo com a inscrição pesa no meu bolso, deixou de ser engraçado, virou uma coisa tão pouco divertida quanto a cabeça encolhida de um amigo morto. Tudo o que comer terá gosto de cinzas daqui pra frente. Fodam-se os livros. Foda-se a televisão. Nem mesmo consigo dar algum dinheiro ao coitado. Tenho as mãos trêmulas, estou inutilizado, tomado pela paranoia, Volto correndo ao quarto refrigerado do New World Hotel, me enrosco na cama ainda desfeita, fico olhando para o teto com os olhos cheios de lágrimas, incapaz de digerir ou entender o que presenciei e impotente para fazer qualquer coisa a respeito. Não saio nem como nada pelas 24 horas seguintes. A equipe de tevê acha que estou tendo um colapso nervoso. Saigon...Ainda em Saigon. O que vim fazer no Vietnã?
Anthony Bourdain (A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines)
Do you have a light?" she asked. "Hmm? Oh, yeah, sure." He reached into his watch pocket and pulled out an old, battered Zippo. He flipped up the lid and lit it, holding it out to her with his free hand cupped to block the light breeze. Janet inhaled a long, grateful drag. "You cannot imagine how much I needed this," she said, glancing back at her savior. He shrugged, lighting his own. They stood, smoking in silence. Then the silence seemed less companionable to Janet. Then it became uncomfortable. "I'm very nervous," she blurted out. "This is the first time I've done this." He nodded, encouragingly. "You're very good at it. Most people cough their first time.
Brett D. Hainley
The flick of his Zippo calms me a little. The familiar sound reminds me that I am not alone in this and never have been.
Kate Stewart (One Last Rainy Day: The Legacy of a Prince (Ravenhood Legacy, #1))
The flick of his Zippo calms me a little. The familiar sound reminds me that I am not alone in this and never have been. “You may think you’re locked up tight enough, Dom, but it’s starting to leak everywhere. You are making this,” he gestures between us, “hard already. If you keep a lid on what’s important now, you’ll make what’s coming impossible.
Kate Stewart (One Last Rainy Day: The Legacy of a Prince (Ravenhood Legacy, #1))
The 5th Rangers were a wonderful outfit. It was lads like [Raaen] who our nation can thank for the beachhead it won on D-Day in Normandy. Believe me, they were the only reason that enabled an old crock like myself to shake fear loose and “roll on.” T/5 Tom Herring, Company C, 5th Ranger Battalion: Before Cota reached Schneider, a flurry of artillery fire caused him [Cota] to hit the dirt. I was lying to the left of Pfc. William Stump, also C Company. Stump asked me for a match, saying his were wet. “Mine too,” I said. Stump reached across my back and punched a soldier next to me and asked, “Hey, Buddy, you got a light?” As the soldier rolled onto his left side, the star on his jacket epaulet was visible to both Stump and me. Stump said, “Sorry, sir!” Cota reached into his jacket, pulled out a Zippo, flicked it, held it for Stump to light up and said, “That’s OK, son, we’re all here for the same reason.” T.Sgt. Herb Epstein, Intelligence NCO, Headquarters Company, 5th Ranger Battalion: I was lying on the sand next to Col. Schneider as Cota walked up and called for him. Schneider stood up and the two were standing there while all this firing was going on and General Cota said to him, “Col. we are counting on the Rangers to lead the way!” Schneider said, “yes sir!” and Cota walked back east.
Garrett M. Graff (When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day)
Lonnie smiled and nodded as Herbert repocketed the cutter and produced a chopped-down, brass Zippo lighter, the one that he had carried in the seventies in Vietnam. “St. Peter leaned down to the Crow woman and asked her if she had anything she wanted to say, and she told him that to her, there
Craig Johnson (As The Crow Flies (Walt Longmire, #8))
the President asked the Admiral if he could smoke out here.  This was normally never done.  No one would even think to smoke on the flight deck.  Today, the rules were different.  The Admiral said, “Well sir, that’s not normally done, but we aren’t fueling any aircraft and nothing’s going to take place out here while you are on deck.  So yes, I guess you can smoke out here.”      With that answer, the President reached into his jacket pocket and produced a metal tin that held very short little cigars called “Between the Acts”.  He started fumbling through his pockets, obviously looking for a light.  The Admiral began checking his pockets and then gave me a panicked look.  I reached into my pocket and handed the Admiral my prized Zippo lighter, the one with the Marine Corps emblem.  The Admiral immediately gave it to the President, who flicked it open and lighted his little cigar.  When he finished the lighting process he snapped the lid shut, rolled the lighter around in his right hand, paused for a second to notice the emblem, and promptly put the lighter into his right coat pocket.  The Admiral looked at me as if to say, “We will work it out later
W.R. Spicer (Sea Stories of a U.S. Marine, Book 1, Stripes to Bars)
He straightened his spine and reached inside his pocket for his Zippo. Fine, if Shay wanted to wait to mention what was on her mind, she’d wait.   *
Nikki Jefford (Entangled (Spellbound, #1))
I was a drunk teenager once, and that combination goes together about as well as gasoline and a Zippo lighter.
Amy Matayo (They Call Her Dirty Sally)
the difference between a strong and weakened civilization is its ratio of internal continuities and discontinuities – and when the latter increase so as to overwhelm the former, then zippo, the civilization collapses from within itself.
Ingo Swann (The Wisdom Category: Shedding Light on a Lost Light)
We all know that the survivors of war rarely speak of their experience. We tell ourselves they do not want to relive the horror of the battlefield. I think the greater reason for their reticence lies in their charity, because they know that the average person cannot deal with the images of a straw village worked over by a Gatling gun or Zippo-tracks, or women and children
James Lee Burke (Creole Belle (Dave Robicheaux, #19))
I dug into my coat pocket and hauled out my pride and joy: one Zippo "one-zip windproof lighter" that the winds of the last few days had forced me to buy. I guess the ads had sold me: "Why, zip, zip, zip. . .when one zip does it!
Richard S. Prather (Shell Scott PI Mystery Series, Volume One)
I thought you quit smoking." "Did. For recreational purposes." His father flicked open his Zippo lighter. The smell of the lighter fluid filled the immediate proximity. "This is medicinal." He lit the cigarette, clicked the top of the lighter shut, and closed his eyes as he took in his first drag. "Ah. That feels better.
Dawn Flemington (Hometown Secrets)
Charlene had gone to Ryan’s locker to talk to him. Raj didn’t bother with any pretenses, like reading a book in the hallway. People like Charlene and Ryan were easy to observe openly; so engrossed in their own lives that they barely noticed other people around them. Raj flicked his Zippo
Nikki Jefford (Entangled (Spellbound, #1))