Smell Quotes · Page 45

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

— Chris Hedges

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

— Margaret Millar

A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart.

— Emanuel Ungaro

“Scent is the key to the door of memory. For a minute, she let herself live in it.”

— Meg Elison

The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.

— Sara Shepard

“...A madeleine moment - a sound, a scent can incant her presence...”

— John Geddes

“Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.”

— Patrick Süskind

“cinnamon, Jackson had called it on Bailey. As if her ethnicity had a scent or a flavor.”

— Megan Miranda

October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell…

— Ken Weber

Obviously I want the fragrance to smell good. I tell people all the time that when you see someone there can obviously…

— Chris Paul

“Wolf’s wits, moving now, in spite of the fumes of smoke and alcohol, with restored clarity, achieved a momentous orientation of many…

— John Cowper Powys

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' -…

— Lyall Watson

You've just got to win in China - that's it. Winning is like good deodorant. When you don't win, it's like you…

— Stephon Marbury

You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl…

— Anonymous

“Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had…

— Paul Zindel

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such…

— Ken Baumann

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see,…

— Daniel Pinkwater

I like to relax and lie in the water. It is the way I calm myself down. But every time I walk…

— Tom Ford

“Once the scent caught me on the street in Greenwich Village. I stopped in my tracks and looked around. Where was it…

— Rebecca Wells

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,…

— John Green

“About dusk the land breeze came off, sweeping over the ship, laden with the fragrance of tropical fruits and flowers so heavy…

— John D. Whidden

Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as…

— Nora Ephron

Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Yesterday I noticed a scent of bark outside that I had not smelled in years. While the bark lingered in my nose,…

— Jonathan Hull

“Sports make you sweat and smell. Stay in school, use your brain. Be a thinker, not a stinker.”

— Apollo Creed

“If I had nostrils on my index fingers, I wonder what the inside of my nose would smell like?”

— Jarod Kintz

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“And your skin is like honey. I wonder how you taste." Bitter and tired. "Mhm.”

— Ilona Andrews

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.

— Natasha Poly

When a dog is really comfortable, they give off a certain scent and you can smell it on their paws.

— Booboo Stewart

“There’s a faint whiff of feces wafting up my nostrils. But that’s natural, because I just walked past a politician.”

— Jarod Kintz

Wall Street sharks will go where they smell the blood, and you cannot change that.

— Daniel Lubetzky

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

— Anonymous

When Jett puts my face in his hands and tells me, 'Mommy you're so pretty' or smells me, it's so wonderful.

— Jill Scott

Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment.

— Steve Hagen

“and hot raw wood. There was a guy behind a counter, in worn blue overalls stained black with dirt. He was”

— Lee Child

Winning is the deodorant of the game, it covers all bad smells.

— Steve Nicol

“You told me I smelled - like bacon." "Well," he said evenly. "That's awkward.”

— Michelle Hodkin

I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.

— M. Night Shyamalan