Smell famous quotes

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
-- Aberjhani

#Love Is #Smell #Unity

Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
-- Abraham Cowley

#Smell #Rose #Reason

When I fart my ***** makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.
-- Adam Carolla

#Smell #Sound #Ass

The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking! He sniffed at the air. And I smell delicious!
-- Adam Gidwitz

#Air #Sweat #Smell

When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
-- Adam Rapp

#Smell #Oatmeal #House

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
-- Adolf Galland

#Oil #Smell #Enemy

I even love the smell of books.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Book #Reading #Smell

Whether we had a (good) moral intuition more developed, we would be as much morally disgusted by the rapacity of those who try to benefit from, and monopolize (or secure or corner), having no consideration (regardless or irrespective of) for others ("autrui", Fr.), than we physically are by a sickening (or nauseating) smell.
-- African Spir

#Smell #Intuition #Trying

Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.
-- Alain de Botton

#Smell #People #Ignored

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
-- Alan Bennett

#Smell #Confusing #Library

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.
-- Alan Gussow

#Sight #Smell #Sound

We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.
-- Albert Camus

#Blood #Color #Smell

Although I dont know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.
-- Alexander Hanson

#Home #Smell #Interesting

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.
-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Memories #Sky #Smell

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Hair #Smell #Wizards

He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Girl #Jobs #Smell

It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.
-- Alexandra Ripley

#Smell #Air #Years

Tonight I can smell the season the way it's usually only possible to at the very first moments of its return, before you're used to it, when you've forgotten its smell, then there it is back in the air and the flow of things shifting and resettling again.
-- Ali Smith

#Smell #Air #Tonight

Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.
-- Alison Croggon

#Glasses #Smell #Old Friends

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
-- Alison Lurie

#Sweet #War #Smell

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.
-- Alyssa Milano

#New York #Smell #Flesh

I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.
-- Amanda McKittrick Ros

#Believe #Hands #Smell

It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Happiness #Smell #Noses

I am inside someone who hates me. I look out from his eyes. Smell what fouled tunes come in to his breath. Love his wretched women.
-- Amiri Baraka

#Hate #Eye #Smell

I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.
-- Amy Hempel

#Dog #Smell #Differences

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend
-- Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#Weekend #Smell #Alarms

I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
-- Amy Smart

#Wine #Smell #Apples

Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.
-- Anderson Cooper

#New York #Emotional #Smell

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.
-- Andrea Corr

#Reality #Smell #World

Women like to use products that other women say work. The Internet will be a big opportunity, but you cant smell a fragrance there yet.
-- Andrea Jung

#Opportunity #Smell #Use

Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.
-- Andy Puddicombe

#Smell #Differences #Appreciate

Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.
-- Andy Rooney

#Smell #People #Soap

He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.
-- Angie Sage

#Smell #Dragons #Burning

The stinkiest hair products have got to be any sort of perm, and Nair. In fact, they smell remarkably similar. Do you think that Nair is just a souped-up version of a perm that makes your leg hair super-curl until it falls off? And can anything that smells that bad be good for you?
-- Anita Renfroe

#Fall #Thinking #Smell

She got under the covers and put her arms around the bag. She could smell Tibby. It used to be she couldn't smell Tibby's smell in the way you couldn't smell your own; it was too familiar. But tonight she could. This was some living part of Tibby still here and she held on to it. There was more of Tibby with her here and now than in what she had seen in the cold basement room that day.
-- Ann Brashares

#Smell #Bags #Tonight

But it was smell that carried memory.
-- Ann Brashares

#Memories #Smell

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.
-- Anna Akhmatova

#Girl #Dust #Smell

I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.
-- Anne Fadiman

#Book #Grateful #Smell

The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no tidemark: there was no more dirt to rub away. He took a deep breath and shivered. He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch--and now he was David, his own master, free--free as long as he could remain so.
-- Anne Holm

#Hands #Smell #Long

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
-- Anne Lamott

#Sweet #Smell #Glasses

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.
-- Anne Lamott

#Mother #Smell #Giving

Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good.
-- Anne Rice

#Order #Smell #Vampire

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
-- Anne Tyler

#Smell #Persons

On the plane, I like to read fiction set in the location I'm going to. Fiction is in many ways more useful than a guidebook, because it gives you those little details, a sense of the way a place smells, an emotional sense of the place. So, I'll bring Graham Greene's The Quiet American if I'm going to Vietnam. It's good to feel romantic about a destination before you arrive.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Emotional #Smell #Giving

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.
-- Anthony Bourdain

#Mean #Sleep #Smell

Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.
-- Anthony de Mello

#Love Is #Light #Smell

I didn't have to fit into a mold. You make the mold. People can smell a rat. If you're doing thing for marketing and for a record label, you're going to set yourself up to be called a phony. As long as it's true to you, you do it.
-- Anthony Evans

#Smell #Long #People

When you see a guy go down, you smell blood in the water.
-- Anthony Famiglietti

#Running #Blood #Smell

Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.
-- Anton Oliver

#Nice #Men #Smell

You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
-- Aravind Adiga

#Sweet #Men #Smell

Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.
-- Archibald Garrod

#Science #Thinking #Smell

The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.
-- Argus Hamilton

#Flower #Sleep #Smell

Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.
-- Arjun Rampal

#Smell #Car #Black

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Flower #Smell #Rose

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
-- Arthur Miller

#Best Friend #Smell #Rose

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Wall #Book #Smell

I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.
-- Ashley Jensen

#Museums #Smell #Church

There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's shop.
-- Augustus William Hare

#Flower #Garden #Smell

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.
-- Augustus William Hare

#Smell #Political #Fields

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE'S FRAGRANCE.
-- B. B. Warfield

#Sweet #Names #Smell

The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.
-- Baltasar Gracian

#Sweet #Taken #Smell

Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.
-- Barbara Pym

#Smell #Drink #Librarian

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.
-- Barbara Stanwyck

#Smell #Kicks

You smell good, too,” said Patch It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.” Naked. I know the drill.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Smell #Water #Hot

...I need a boyfriend. And to get a boyfriend, you have to look good. Doesn’t hurt to smell good too.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Hurt #Smell #Needs

You smell good." "It's called a shower. Soap, shampoo, water-" "Naked. I know the drill.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Smell #Water #Naked

You should shower," I said. "Right now." "I smell that bad?" (Patch) Actually, he smelled that good.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick

#Smell #Should #Patches

Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don't smell it, you don't taste it, it's formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.
-- Bella Pollen

#Heart #Smell #Unhappy

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Inspirational #Smell #Cute Funny

In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
-- Bernhard Schlink

#Past #Sweat #Smell

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.
-- Bertrice Small

#Sweet #Smell #Gentleman

Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
-- Beth Ditto

#Keys #Essential Oils #Smell

Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.
-- Bette Midler

#Smell #Infidelity #Pace

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.
-- Betty Smith

#Book #Hard Work #Smell

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.
-- Bill Pullman

#Fall #Play #Smell

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.
-- Bill Pullman

#Jobs #Mean #Smell

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.
-- Bill Walton

#Color #Smell #Sound

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?
-- Billy Wilder

#Smell #Hot #Afternoon

Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.
-- Blaize Clement

#Smell #Grease #Littles

She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.
-- Bob Dylan

#Smell #Rejection #Hot

There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
-- Bob Woodward

#Running #Smell #People

When a dog is really comfortable, they give off a certain scent and you can smell it on their paws.
-- Booboo Stewart

#Dog #Smell #Giving

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
-- Boyle Roche

#Air #Sky #Smell

She said, "You may be able to implant an image, even a taste or a smell, but I don't think you can implant the feelings that went with the experience that created the memory.
-- Brian Falkner

#Memories #Thinking #Smell

When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.
-- Brian P. Cleary

#Kids #Hands #Smell

Children are like sponges; they start to smell after a little while.
-- Brian P. Cleary

#Children #Smell #Littles

Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say.
-- Brian Tracy

#Smell #Brain #Influence

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph
-- Bruce Gilden

#Smell #Photograph #Streets

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it
-- Buddy Guy

#Play #Smell #Funky

I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
-- Burt Rutan

#Smell #Data #Facts

The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?
-- C. S. Lewis

#Beach #Sea #Smell

That’s the tricky thing about love. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and smells like a duck. But after you sleep with it a month or so, or get dumped at the altar by it, it starts smelling more like a skunk.
-- C.C. Hunter

#Sleep #Ducks #Smell

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.
-- Caitlin Flanagan

#Smell #Female #Suitcases

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
-- Cameron Mackintosh

#Smell #Soul #Building

It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some place, some special place, where we feel at ease. a place to belong. Forces, not forms, persist: energy is spent and endures; time does not tick, it flows. God loves a man that smells of trout water and mountain meadows. Which way's heaven, you suppose? Follow the trail and keep close to the stream.
-- Carey Mulligan

#Silly #Men #Smell

Brotherly love is not a tangible commodity. We cannot touch it or weigh it, smell it of taste it. Yet it is a reality; it can be creative, it can be fostered, it can be made a dynamic power. The Master who has it in his Lodge and his brethren will find that Lodge and brethren give it back to him. The Master too worried over the cares of his office to express friendliness need never wonder why his Lodge seems too cold to his effort.
-- Carl H. Claudy

#Reality #Love Is #Smell

The best thing to do with a bad smell is to get rid of it.
-- Carol Kendall

#Smell

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.
-- Carol Vorderman

#Sunday #Smell #Vegetables

Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell.
-- Carole Katchen

#Smell #Survival #Age

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.
-- Cary Grant

#Smell #Should #Enjoy