Smell Quotes
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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 -
Smell is the sense of memory and desire.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.
Marina Tsvetaeva -
I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.
Ralph Hodgson -
They smell good. They look pretty. I love women. I do.
Tom Cruise -
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir Nabokov -
The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I wanted him to see in that plate of pasta everything that, by leaving, he would no longer be able to look at, or touch, or caress, listen to, smell: never again.
Elena Ferrante
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The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.
Mark Steyn -
A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.
Ryunosuke Satoro -
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
Bill Vaughan -
Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.
Sherman Alexie -
For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.
Caitlin Moran -
Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.
Lilli Palmer
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I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?
Nalini Singh -
I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good. I love the smell of Balmex. Love it.
Sarah Jessica Parker -
She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.
Rachel Caine -
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller -
You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.
Caroline Manzo -
A pipe and coffee... if they would just taste as good as they smell!
Bobby Sherman
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It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
D. H. Lawrence -
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.
Scott Caan -
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.
Laini Taylor