Mute Quote by Diane Ackerman Download Open image “Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.” — Diane Ackerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mute Smell
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates. — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Lol. I'm deaf and only 21 years old. I could see, feel, taste, and smell.. But I just can't hear. — Uniique Styles Randxom Copy Share Image
Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead. — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything. — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can’t go back to how it was, we’re designing a good… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The etymology of the Hebrew word for prophet, navi, combines three processes: navach (to cry out), nava (to gush or flow), and navuv (to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around,… — Banks Copy Share Image
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Strange how love coexists with hate, how they render eachother mute, how the swilling of them together makes a new and softer, sympathetic thing. — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“I have three phobias which, could I mute them,would make my life as slick as a sonnet,but dull as ditch water:I hate to go… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . . — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image