Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that… — David Malouf Copy Share Image
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an… — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food. — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor. — Homer Copy Share Image
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and define it, but the ascertaining of an… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor… — Neltje Blanchan Copy Share Image
The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments--… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts;… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Perfume was first created to mask the stench of foul and offensive odors... Spices and bold flavorings were created to mask the… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
