Smell Quotes
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose
between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing
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No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.
Ngaio Marsh
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It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.
Ray Bradbury
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Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
Walter Hagen
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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
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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
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Everybody has their own little thing, but I don't do that. But my wife might take care of my nails or something, but I'm always groomed, I'm always, making sure I smell good.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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You could drop me anywhere in the universe, blindfolded, and I'd know this was his room just from the smell.
Beth Revis
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You may almost forget the smell of your family.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg
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Enantiomers often smell and taste differently.
Ryoji Noyori
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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
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle – mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of c and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Diane Ackerman
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Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?
Sara Gruen
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The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.
Charles Dickens
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If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.
William Kitchiner
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Herbes... comfort the wearied braine with fragrant smells which yielde a certaine kind of nourishment.
William H. Coles
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Smell is a fallen angel.
Helen Keller
