Whiff Quotes

38 quotes by 38 authors

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. — Alistair Cooke
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
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
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
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
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
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
But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a cafÃ© latte to perk… — Mark Forsyth
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
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
Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder. — Richard Perle
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
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
If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it. — Arnold Palmer
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. — Benedict Cumberbatch
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
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
'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
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
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

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