Smell Quotes
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O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven
William Shakespeare
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Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.
Dawud Wharnsby Ali
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Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.
Diane Ackerman
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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
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Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William Osler
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Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.
Neal Barnard
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… a house on fire is a perfect description for what seems to be happening now: these flickering small resentments licking their way up into the wall cavities; this faint, acrid smell of smoke. And suddenly, before you know it, everything threatening to go roaring out of control.
Cate Kennedy
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I studied you until I knew you, or at least, the public parts of you: your learning, your passion, the way your voice slows down when you answer a question. I studied your hands, and wondered how they'd touch me; your hair, and how it would smell. I wondered about that and about the rest of you I could not see. I wanted to know you. And I wanted you to know me. I wanted you to see me.
Ellen Kushner
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Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?
Tré Cool
Green Day
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If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.
Kanye West
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“He can smell a try like a forest animal”
Bill McLaren
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Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.
Ray Bradbury
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Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
Caryl Rivers
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Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.
Morgan Spurlock
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The stinkiest hair products have got to be any sort of perm, and Nair. In fact, they smell remarkably similar. Do you think that Nair is just a souped-up version of a perm that makes your leg hair super-curl until it falls off? And can anything that smells that bad be good for you?
Anita Renfroe
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For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.
Tony Hillerman
