Smell Quotes - Page 35

• Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.

  Donna Karan

  Spiritual, Memories, Powerful

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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

  Book, Reading, Noses

  George Gissing (2015). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.22, George Gissing

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• The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Past, Names

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

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• The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.

  Ross Macdonald

  Memories, Moving, Sea

  Ross Macdonald (2012). “The Drowning Pool”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

  Steven Morrissey

  Burning, Flesh, Humans

  "Morrissey Forced Off Stage at Coachella by Smell of Burning Meat" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2009.

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• We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Memories, Sky, May

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• All our lives we are engaged in preserving our experiences and keeping them fresh by artificially sprinkling the water of memory over them. They have ceased to retain their original smell and fragrance. Do you call it life- this effort at the preservation of a phantom freshness in something that is withered and gone?

  Vimala Thakar

  Memories, Water, Effort

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• But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

  Ridley Scott

  Adventure, Creating, Degrees

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through a bit of alchemy, transform them into delicious creations.

  Judith Jones

  Color, Raw Materials, Earth

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• Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them and smell them and get to know them well. We begin a process of acknowledging our aversions and our cravings. We become familiar with the strategies and beliefs we use to build the walls: What are the stories I tell myself? What repels me and what attracts me? We start to get curious about what’s going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Wall, Honesty, Moving

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• The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch.  These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art.  In filling the well, think magic.  Think delight.  Think fun.  Do not think duty.  Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text.  Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Fun

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• They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

  Chris Hedges

  Academia, Poor, Harvard

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• A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

  Josh Billings

  Running, Dog, Men

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• He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns. . . . He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods . . . endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sunset, Thinking, Cooking

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• Ten Things You Shouldn't Say on a Date.
  1. You're wearing that?
  2. Something smells funny.
  3. Where's the Tylenol?
  4. And to think, I first wanted to date your brother.
  5. I have a confession to make…
  6. My dad has a suit just like that.
  7. That man is hot. Look at him.
  8. My ex, may he rot in hell forever…
  9. You're going to order that? Seriously?
  10. You're how old?

  Gena Showalter

  Brother, Dad, Men

  Gena Showalter (2007). “Animal Instincts”, p.3, HQN Books

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• If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

  Mark Pryor

  Book, Library, Would Be

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• You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

  Frida Kahlo

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

  Meister Eckhart

  Time, Light, Obstacles

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• So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Leaving, Departed, Remember

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• There was almost a universal acceptance of unhealthy conditions. Sulfur dioxide in smokestack emissions were the price, or smell, of prosperity.

  Denis Hayes

  Acceptance, Sulfur, Prosperity

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• One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.

  Russell Baker

  Christian, Hypocrisy, Atheism

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• Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Coffee, Airplane, Cabins

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• It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beautiful, Flower, Way

  Physics Today, November 2005.

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• Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Thinking, Brain, Sound

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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