Smell Quotes
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The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.
Camilla Gibb -
I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.
Richard Pryor
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Smell is a fallen angel.
Helen Keller -
I love that smell of the emissions!
Sarah Palin -
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 -
If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.
Ann Petry -
You may almost forget the smell of your family.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg
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Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?
Tré Cool Green Day -
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
Karl Lagerfeld -
“He can smell a try like a forest animal”
Bill McLaren -
Instead, she looked vaguely about, sniffing that familiar smell of fresh dirtiness which belongs to mankind’s extreme youth, a pleasant smell to mothers. Henny had spent twelve years in that atmosphere.
Christina Stead -
A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it.
T. R. Pearson -
Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from below. There was a sharp, unbearable smell of birds, of cod, of green decaying seaweed. Through the mist the huge ruddy sun loomed nearer and nearer. And in the sea, dark blood welled up to meet it - in bloated, rearing, huge white waves. Night. The mouth of the bay between two cliffs was like a window. A window shutting out curious eyes with a white shade-white woolly fog. And all that you could see was that behind it something red was happening. (The North)
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.
DeAndre Jordan -
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.
Andrei Sinyavsky -
No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.
Ngaio Marsh -
A very ancient and fish-like smell.
William Shakespeare -
Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.
Diane Ackerman -
On either side the wild roses, their pink dewy faces turned to the sun, tumbled over the fences, sprawled on the ground and filled the air with their pure summery smell.
Betty MacDonald
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The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome
Claudia Roden -
The colours of her heart represented the deeds she'd done, both good and bad, but the faint smell of treacle told her that, overall, she had a sweet heart.
Carrie Fletcher -
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 -
“I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.
Cesar Millan