Smell Quotes

So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.

What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

And for the rest of the night, he couldn’t quite forget the smell of her perfume. Or maybe it was the soft sound of her chuckle. Or maybe it was neither of those things. Maybe it was just her.

Any woman I know can smell a boyfriend a mile away. Women are intuitive, they know when a guy is interested but he’s not going to be there for her in that boyfriend-y way.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

It definitely happens more often than you would think when someone comes up and you're like: "He's really attractive and seems really nice," and it just doesn't work if he smells bad.

I have a soft spot for women, I'm not afraid of it, some women walk into the room, and they're so beautiful and you're like, 'I wanna smell you' you know?

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

I love a nicely groomed guy who smells good. That's important.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

Coffee. I could smell coffee. Coffee would make everything better.

It was starting to smell really good in here. And if I liked what it smelled like, then they were liking what they were smelling, and ah…that would be me.

I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction.

I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

A pause came between them, and it was so full of Akiva that Karou imagined she could smell him.

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.

I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.

Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or was that just him? Did he use pie filling for cologne?

You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores.

Sam was waiting for her,his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great." "I look like a geek," Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra." "My dream date.

You are the only person who loves me in the world," said Elizabeth. "When you talk to me I smell violets.

I'm passionate about history and there's no more historic place than London. We're sitting on a thousand years of history and you can smell it as you're walking around the streets.

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

Death smells like birthday cake.

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong, he thought. Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.

The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

Those are only rumors of suffering. Real suffering has a face and a smell. It lasts in the most intense form no matter what you drape over it. And it knows your name.

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with directors is when I know more than them about the character.

I've always lived by the ocean and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.

It is impossible that a fish doesn't carry any smell of the sea and a real love, of the melancholy!

I was brooding, boy. Than which there is no richer pastime. It muffles one with rotting plumes. It gives forth sullen music. It is the smell of home.

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

The deal looks bad and smells worse.

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.

Past experience told me he could smell my fear; it also told me that the anger accompanying it would pretty much cover the scent. It's good to know how to compensate for your own weaknesses.​