Smells Quotes

389 quotes by 332 authors

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. — John Betjeman
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. — Ray Bradbury
When you have children, your house smells very unpleasant all the time. — Jo Brand
I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting. — Helena Bonham Carter
I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday. — Kurt Cobain
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of… — Harry Kroto
Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells. — Elizabeth Taylor
One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it. — Edward VII
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith
Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself. — Tori Amos
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing… — John Davy
Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come… — Anderson Cooper
It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks… — Richard Dawkins
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. — Desiderius Erasmus
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in… — Aberjhani
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that… — Evelyn Waugh
Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap. — Thomas Golden, Jr.

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