Smell Quotes

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.

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

Leia follows me like a vague smell.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

I see no virtue where I smell no sweat.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Before games, the smell of burgers wafts down from the stands.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

Christian Deodorant: "Thou Shalt Not Smell"

My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.

The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.

If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

Having someone else to blame when there is a rude smell in the air.

I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.

People for the most part can smell lies, at least I thought that until I saw audiences applaud at Carlos Mencia.

It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

I've been told I smell good. I don't look like I smell good.

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

I can smell when someone has a cavity. It's a very specific smell - not a bad-breath smell - but something that is really strong.

Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.

Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'

I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

When I listen to songs, I can smell a rat. I like songs that speak to me with some deeper truth.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

My baby is amazing, even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him!

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.