Able Quote by Lyall Watson

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger…

— Donna Karan

Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel.…

— Ellen Pompeo

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

— Lyall Watson

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

— Thalassa Cruso

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

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

— Iain Banks

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind…

— Lewis Thomas

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

— Will Cotton

It's gross. We use real brains. I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about…

— Ellen Pompeo

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin