The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
“... now and again we would happen to step out of the familiar universe into a sudden sharp shock of sweetly scented… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
“Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells,… — Olivia Thirlby Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
“The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind… — Michelle Cohen Corasanti Copy Share Image
“When writers come here they walk about smelling everything because New Orleans is, above all, a town where the heady scent of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“The scents of these three, for instance, were so distinct, though they were clearly a family: the dark girl more savory and… — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“A smell caught Kitty's attention, yanking her thoughts back to the present. The scent of someone she knew, but up on the… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The only element still surprising was how rapidly Sherman was moving: for whichever direction I looked, he'd been here already, burning and… — Cynthia Bass Copy Share Image
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural… — Liz Murray Copy Share Image
I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
“The breeze carried herself to my nose. It was a scent I hadn't smelled before. It smelled like fallen leaves, or the… — Sohn Won-Pyung Copy Share Image
I think you can tell the difference between 'swagger' and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus… — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
“You smell so good," "No, I don't, I smell like death." "You're crazy, you're not dead. You do not smell like death."… — amy tintera Copy Share Image
I have these surreal moments where I’m like ‘I’m pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal’s baby’ and ‘I’m telling Robert Pattinson that he smells… — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll… — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I… — Engelbert Humperdinck Copy Share Image
If man was a logical creature: his last suspectnamely, his mouthwas going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits… — William Blake Copy Share Image
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Green, chrysanthemum, jasmine, black, and some junk somebody got me from the mall a couple years back that smells like rat poison.” — Stewart Matthews Copy Share Image
Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
My first fragrance as a kid was Tommy Girl. It was amazing. Wasn't it the thing to wear? And then I remember… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
When I go out, I just put on a little mascara - Chanel is my favourite - and fragrance. I actually apply… — Anna Ewers Copy Share Image
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of… — James Dyson Copy Share Image
“I get out of the car, and I'm blasted by the stench of body odor. Cricket is beside me, and he's talking,… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like… — Dries van Noten Copy Share Image
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image