Smell Quotes - Page 39

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

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Kicks

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• My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes you older. Um I don't agree. I think that of course you have to smell good and be clean but there's much more that you have to do. Don't complain, exercise, be be strong, um work, be creative, be related to the world, have causes, fight for them passionately. I think all those things are important. I I'm not going to give up and just smell good.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong, Giving Up, Hate

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• All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, People, Rats

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Grateful, Bed

  "Lust for words, and ice-cream too" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.

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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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• Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

  Bernie Siegel

  Beautiful, Art, Laughter

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• Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.

  Billy Wilder

  Morning, Rain, Writing

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• Let my muse
  Fail of thy former helps, and only use
  Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me
  Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Poetry, Lamps

  1648 'His Fare-well to Sack'.

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• Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Mother, Children, Blood

  Kaye Gibbons (1998). “On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon”, Putnam Publishing Group

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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

  Sweet, Morning, Nature

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.52

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• The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Sweet, Taken, Stupidity

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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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• Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.

  John Green

  Being Yourself, Teenager, Lying

  "Crash Course in Community Building and Content Creation". Interview with Heike Young, www.marketingcloud.com. October 6, 2014.

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• Ever notice how these European trains always smell of eau de cologne and hard boiled eggs?

  Billy Wilder

  Eggs, Cologne, Train

  "Fictional character: Tom Martin". "Arise, My Love", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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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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• I did not pray Him to lay bare
  The mystery to me,
  Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
  And His own face to see.

  Ralph Hodgson

  Prayer, Rose, Heaven

  Ralph Hodgson (1961). “Collected Poems”, London, Macmillan

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• The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart's music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Eye, Ducks

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• Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

  Lilli Palmer

  Memories, Childhood, Stronger

  Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”

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• And there I was with the stars hanging above my house like live wiresand the night sky the color of stockings. I stuck out my tongue to taste the skybut could not taste. I inhaled deeplybut could not smell. I used to look to the sky for comfortand now there was nothing, not even a seam, and I looked down and saw that it did not even reach the ground. And my only company was the satellites counting their sleep and the Sorrowful Mother swinging her empty dipper in the darkness, the Sorrowful Mother picking her way through the stars over my roof. And I knew I was nowhere and if I ever took my hands from my ears I would fall.

  Matthew Rohrer

  Stars, Sleep, Night

  "A Hummock in the Malookas (venus waning/apollo waxing his car)". Book by Matthew Rohrer, 1995.

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• The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Equality

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The winter evening settles down
  With smell of steaks in passageways.

  T. S. Eliot

  Food, Winter, Evening

  "Preludes" l. 1 (1917)

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• Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

  Eric Hoffer

  Writing, Sweat

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• What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.

  Eugene Field

  Men, Smoking, Yards

  Eugene Field (1900). “The Tribune Primer”

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• My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Travel, Men

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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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