Scent Quotes - Page 19

• What joy have I in June's return?
  My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn,
  I scent no flowery gust;
  But faint the flagging zephyr springs,
  With dry Macadam on its wings,
  And turns me 'dust to dust.'

  Thomas Hood

  Spring, June, Dust

  Thomas Hood (1866). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.488

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• I think it's a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I'm liking Creed's Spring Flower. I think I'm going to make it my regular scent.

  Isabelle Fuhrman

  Spring, Flower, Thinking

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• Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.

  Peter York

  Jobs, Keys, Employment

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• Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

  Jean Cocteau

  Clouds, Aquariums, Water

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• The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Sky, Dew, Violet

  Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.66

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• Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor.

  Giambattista Basile

  Fall, Broken, Tree

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• You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

  Stella Adler

  Giving, Doe, Daffodil

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.170, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.

  John Muir

  Wind, May, Littles

  John Muir (2015). “The Mountains of California (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs and Wilderness Study from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Picturesque California & Steep Trails”, p.156, e-artnow

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• Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Sexy, Feminine, Fragrance

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• In the middle of a garden grew a rose tree; it was full of roses, and in the loveliest of them all lived an elf. He was so tiny that no human eye could see him. He had a snug little room behind every petal of the rose. He was as well made and as perfect as any human child, and he had wings reaching from his shoulders to his feet. Oh, what a delicious scent there was in his room, and how lovely and transparent the walls were, for they were palest pink, rose petals.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Children, Wall, Eye

  Hans Christian Andersen (1993). “Andersen's Fairy Tales”, p.40, Wordsworth Editions

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• I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy.

  Pete Wentz

  Girl, People, Creepy

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• In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.

  Alfred Austin

  Song, Notes, Rhyme

  Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”

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• I have loved flowers that fade,Within whose magic tentsRich hues have marriage madeWith sweet unmemoried scents:A honeymoon delight,A joy of love at sight,That ages in an hourMy song be like a flower!

  Robert Bridges

  Song, Sweet, Flower

  Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

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• It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

  George Eliot

  Color, Strange, Colour

  George Eliot (1852). “Middlemarch”, p.15

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• I like to inquire into everything. Hercule Poirot is a good dog. The good dog follows the scent, and if, regrettably, there is no scent to follow, he noses around - seeking always something that is not very nice.

  Agatha Christie

  Dog, Nice, Noses

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

  William Carlos Williams

  Moving, Wind, Mind

  1949 Paterson, bk.3,'The Library'.

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• Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men - how about "New Car Interior"?

  Rita Rudner

  Flower, Men, Ideas

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

  Christina Aguilera

  Rain, Butterfly, Names

  Song: Too Beautiful For Words

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• Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

  Gao Xingjian

  Smell, Body, Awful

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sweet, Flower, Humility

  Saint Therese of Lisieux (2007). “The Story of the Soul”, p.27, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

  Bert Greene

  Food, Cooking, Bread

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• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

  George Santayana

  War, Passion, Ambition

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.272, Рипол Классик

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• But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many things that clutter up the mind, and divert it from the essential. The hitch in this was, of course, the fact that one had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examination, whether one liked it or not.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Mind, Depth

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• It's a Little Leaguers game that major leaguers play extraordinarily well, a game that excites us throughout adulthood. The crack of the bat and the scent of the horsehide on leather bring back our own memories that have been washed away with the sweat and tears of summers long gone...even as the setting sun pushes the shadows past home plate.

  Mario Cuomo

  Summer, Baseball, Memories

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• I'm thankful for a pair of shoes that feel really good on my feet; I like my shoes. I'm thankful for the birds; I feel like they're singing just for me when I get up in the morning... Saying, 'Good morning, John. You made it, John.' I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down. I'm thankful.

  Johnny Cash

  Morning, Sea Breeze, Shoes

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