Smell Quotes

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Always take time to smell the flowers, and let it fill you with beauty, and rediscover that sense of wonder.

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

Love the road of your life... There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so much love to be had, so much Divinity to be felt.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.

You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

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

...Life is nothing but trading smells.

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

Best and dearest flower that grows, / Perfect both to see and smell; / Words can never, never tell / Half the beauty of a Rose - .

Concentrate on how good if feels to be alive. No matter what. Just to see the color of the sky, just to smell the air, and feel the wind in your face

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

She could smell the pages. She could almost taste the words as they stacked up around her.

Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

I had hoped that he has mouth smell or something other repelling, but nothing! It was even charming.

Your mouth smells like my jock strap.

No matter how you rearrange President Obama's inner circle, it still looks, smells and tastes like a rotten Chicago deep-dish pizza.

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

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.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded.

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.

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.

The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful and free from blame.

I pictured my mom, alone in our little apartment on the Upper East Side. I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. It seemed so far away.

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart

You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?