Smell Quotes - Page 38

• I love Miami; I miss it so much. I miss the beach, the peace it brings you. I love the sound and smell of the sea.

  Genesis Rodriguez

  Beach, Sea, Missing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

  Lois Crisler

  Quality, Species, Hard

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• In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively.

  Grant Achatz

  Association, Way, Ingredients

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• What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night wed have what youd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.

  Olympia Snowe

  Running, Monday, Morning

  "After Leaving Senate, Snowe Is Still 'Fighting For Common Ground'". Interview with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 13, 2013.

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• I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.

  Ashley Jensen

  Museums, Church, Florence

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• I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• We parked in back and walked down the stairs with their polished brass railings, past the old-fashioned kitchen. We could see the chefs cooking. It smelled like stew, or meat loaf, the way time should smell, solid and nourishing.

  Janet Fitch

  Past, Cooking, Kitchen

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• Prayer is like money - it has no smell.

  Simone Berteaut

  Prayer

  Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.

  Clive Owen

  Strong, Powerful, Mean

  "Milan Party Report: New Masculinity, Clive Owen-Approved" by Josh Peskowitz, www.esquire.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the smell of onion or quince. Auden has a line: "Ports have names they call the sea." Just so will literature describe life familiarly, regionally, in terms life is accustomed to use -- high or low matters not. Literature cannot by this impulse betray the grandeur of its subject -- there is only one subject: What it feels like to be alive. Nothing is irrelevant. Nothing is typical.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Book, Beer, Names

  Richard Rodriguez (2003). “Brown: The Last Discovery of America”, p.17, Penguin

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• Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them.

  John Updike

  Country, Law, Earth

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.25, Random House

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• My wife likes the hockey smell because its the smell of a warrior.

  David Walton

  Hockey, Warrior, Wife

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• The younger generation can smell fakes - Authenticity trumps cool.

  Craig Groeschel

  Fake, Generations, Authenticity

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• I love the smell of a mans skin.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Skins

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• Lets get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I dont think in a language, and animals dont think in a language. Its sensory based thinking, thinking in pictures, thinking in smells, thinking in touches. Its putting these sensory based memories into categories.

  Temple Grandin

  Memories, Thinking, Animal

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Definitions, Information, Subjectivity

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• All the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name.

  Evadne Price

  War, Believe, Dirty

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• Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

  Ken Baumann

  Book, Communication, Men

  "Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.

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• the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

  Margaret Millar

  Spring, Rooms, Lilac

  Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.33, Soho Press

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• Our times are obsessed with finding fulfillment, so there are times when some people try too hard, and there are people who want to have the newest feelings just as there are those who want to have the latest model car. You can't play at love any more than you can be proud of your humility, or add water to your perfume and have it smell the same, but men and women both have been known to try.

  Merle Shain

  Humility, Men, Play

  Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

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

  Ngaio Marsh

  Coffee

  Ngaio Marsh (2016). “Last Ditch: Roderick Alleyn #29”, p.71, Felony & Mayhem Press

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• The smell of rain is rich with life.

  Estela Portillo Trambley

  Rain, Smell Of Rain, Rich

  Estela Portillo Trambley (1975). “Rain of Scorpions and Other Writings”, Tqs Publications

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• The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Kicks

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• I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.

  Amanda McKittrick Ros

  Believe, Hands, Wish

  Amanda McKittrick Ros, Frank Ormsby (1988). “Thine in storm and calm: an Amanda McKittrick Ros reader”, Blackstaff Pr

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• When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

  Lorene Cary

  Reading, Book, Night

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage

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