Smoke Test

Famous quotes containing the words smoke and/or test:

“God loafs around heaven,
without a shape
but He would like to smoke His cigar
or bite His fingernails
and so forth.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They don’t mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughter’s behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.”
—Stella Chess (20th century)