Smell Quotes

• Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops?

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Smell
  • Burning
  • Pork

• 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
  • Animal
  • Dog
  • Bird

• “He can smell a try like a forest animal”

  

  Bill McLaren
  • Animal
  • Forest
  • Smell

• Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.

  

  Anton Oliver
  • Place
  • Land
  • Smell

• Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Garden
  • Sugar
  • Lemons

• O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Dignity
  • Offence

• 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
  • Hair
  • Smell
  • Version

• The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • World
  • Book
  • Printed

• … 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
  • House
  • Fire
  • Smoke

• You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Try

• A very ancient and fish-like smell.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Ancient
  • Memorable
  • Fishes

• 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
  • Air
  • Smell
  • Perfumes

• 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
  • Turn
  • Smell
  • Gastronome

• I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Film
  • Camera
  • Smell

• 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
  • Smell
  • Birds
  • Cod

• If you don't smell nice before the game, it's going to be pretty bad during and after.

  

  DeAndre Jordan
  • Pretty
  • Smell
  • During

• For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Food
  • Cry
  • Noses

• Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

  

  Caryl Rivers
  • Humans
  • Machines
  • Closest

• Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Stop
  • Smell
  • Roses

• Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.

  

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali
  • Earth
  • Faces
  • Smell

• 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
  • Smell
  • Roses
  • Fences

• No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Good
  • Coffee
  • Smell

• 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
  • Country
  • Eye
  • Candle

• You may almost forget the smell of your family.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Family
  • Forget
  • Smell

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