Whiff Quotes
38 quotes by 38 authors
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
— Alistair Cooke
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October, here's to you. Here's to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts…
— Ken Weber
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit…
— Cary Middlecoff
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The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
— Joseph Conrad
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend…
— Andrew Solomon
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I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with…
— Andrew Sullivan
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It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the…
— Joe Camp
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But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk…
— Mark Forsyth
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Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.
— Richard Perle
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But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are.…
— Robertson Davies
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As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on…
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.
— Arnold Palmer
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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the…
— Joshua Foer
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I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.
— Leona Lewis
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'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult…
— Rob Sheffield
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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing…
— William Butler Yeats
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He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true.…
— Katherine Dunn
Who Wrote These Whiff Quotes
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