Battlefields Quote by Amos Oz

“vivid descriptions of the grim sights and sounds and smells”

— Jennifer Chiaverini

“The most dreadful scenes, the worst in Dante's Inferno, for example, can be visualized by the inner eye; and sounds, too, are conveyed to…

— William Henry Hudson

“The novels, travel books and poems I read had a particular smell. The smell of cellars. An almost spicy smell, a mixture of dust…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

Battlefield Earth is like taking a bus trip with someone who has needed a bath for a long time. It's not merely bad; it's…

— Roger Ebert

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not…

— Dean Koontz

The smells are very strong on 'Game of Thrones': the incense, the fire, the heat of all the burns. The smell of Lancel's Faith…

— Eugene Simon

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire…

— Nostradamus

“Both armies liked to poison their weapons. They usually used the blood of Medusa, or spittle from Cerberus, the three-headed dog of the underworld.…

— Angie Fox

“...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of…

— George Eliot

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage,…

— D. B. Sweeney

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Fernando Pessoa