Smell Quotes - Page 9

• Don't underestimate the value people place on authenticity. Politicians listen to the focus groups and say the things they think people want to hear. But after 30 years of reading consumers, I know that they can smell phonies.

  Rochelle B Lazarus

  Reading, Thinking, Years

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• For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a wallet.

  Robert Orben

  Father, Kids, Giving

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• Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

  George Takei

  Home, Wind, Knows

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• My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

  Kami Garcia

  Mom, Book, Doors

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series”, p.328, Penguin UK

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• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Jumping, Black, Firsts

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloë Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• Books smell. Musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be...smelly.

  Rupert Giles

  Book, Gone, Texture

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• If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Real, Character, Long

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• Vodka is a very deceptive drink, because you drink it and you think, "What is this? This is pointless! It's - you can't taste it, you can't smell it... Why did we waste our money on this, bloody - why are we on a traffic island?"

  Dylan Moran

  Taste, Drink, Vodka

  "Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'

  Jorge Valdano

  Football, Coffee, Sunrise

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• Herbes... comfort the wearied braine with fragrant smells which yielde a certaine kind of nourishment.

  William H. Coles

  Comfort, Kind, Nourishment

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• The smell rewards the care.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Care, Rewards

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• I did have a Huggy Beardoll. One of his legs fell off. That empty leg became a place where, when we were doing a lot of drugs on tour at one point, we would store the drugs in his empty leg. That's where the term 'dancing with the one-legged man' on Smells Like Children came from, because whenever anyone was doing drugs we called it the 'dance of the one-legged man.' That became a ritualistic thing that was funny for awhile.

  Marilyn Manson

  Children, Men, Dancing

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• It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Our Words, Tools, Mud

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• First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.

  William Carlos Williams

  Taught, World, Taste

  Ian D. Copestake, William Carlos Williams (2004). “Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams”, p.179, Peter Lang

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• Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Focus, Looks

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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• I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Wish, Drink, Gallons

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• The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.

  Rod Taylor

  Beautiful, Girl, Sweet

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• I volunteered on a farming community in Israel for two years when I was a teenager. One of the jobs involved clearing out a massive warehouse full of chickens ready for the abattoir. The smell of 40,000 chickens in 45C is awful.

  Nick Frost

  Jobs, Teenager, Israel

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• Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

  Alan Watts

  Thinking, Light, Brain

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• My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

  Curtis Stone

  Thinking, Childhood, Cookies

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• I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

  Alber Elbaz

  Past, People, Events

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.

  Nicki Chapman

  Jobs, Village, Earning

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

  Rachel Kushner

  Growing Up, Kids, Agents

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.

  Neal Barnard

  Dog, Animal, Bird

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that when you look at a guy like Luke Harper you can see that he does in fact smell.

  Daniel Bryan

  Thinking, Guy, Doe

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

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