Odor Quotes

111 Odor quotes by 102 unique authors

The woman is not just a pleasure, nor even a problem. She is a meniscus that allows the absolute to have a shape, that lets… — Jack Gilbert
Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,… — Edward Abbey
When Spring is old, and dewy windsBlow from the south, with odors sweet,I see my love, in shadowy groves,Speed down dark aisles on shining feet. — Maurice Thompson
Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out. — Phyllis Diller
In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time… — Will Ferrell
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. — Eric Hoffer
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies.… — Alison Lurie
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any. — Jean Rostand
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. — Henry David Thoreau
Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an… — James Wolcott
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And… — James K. Morrow
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. — Jasper Fforde
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed… — Octave Mirbeau
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not… — Ellen DeGeneres
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt… — James Joyce
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of… — Haruki Murakami
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off,… — Patrick SÃ¼skind
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister… — Kate Chopin
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental,… — Helen Keller

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