Lingering Smell Quotes

#1. Everyone froze.
In real time the whole sequence had probably taken ten seconds. In the slow motion of crisis time it had unreeled in ponderous elegance, and the crystalline immobility that followed was intensified by the lingering smell of gunfire, like an olfactory echo of the big bang.

Robert B. Parker

#2. The animals had filled the tidy new freight cars with the lingering smell of their sweat and waste, parasites infesting the cracks between the hoof-dented boards, the feeling of imminent slaughter staying with the train forever. Soon

Ian Kharitonov

#3. Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!

Sylvia Nasar

#4. With the smell so close, the ocean came into view only a few moments later, sometimes peeking between old brick buildings with bright blue eyes, other times peering for a lingering moment like long lost relatives seeing one another for the first time.

Shannon A. Thompson

#5. Now, Lily said, her burning voice bitter. Now you give me a choice. The ministar flared to life in her palm again. Thus do I choose, you son of a bitch. Knight of Winter, burn and die.

Jim Butcher

#6. When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

Thomas Hobbes

#7. He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been.

Patricia Briggs

#8. We often give others the tools for our own demise.

Warren Cassell Jr.

#9. [about a book lent by a crush]
Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in the book, my nose pressed up against the print. Could smell Sean on the pages, the lingering odours from his sportsbag. Man scent, liniment, damp earth.

Bob Condron

#10. When they were small and my wife really had no other responsibilities, except taking care of the family and all of us, it wasn't that big a deal. It was fun. Hey, we're going to Moscow. We're going to Italy. We're going to Toronto. We're going to New York.

Joe Mantegna

#11. Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy George's house to get your picture taken is like going to David Copperfield's island for a radio opportunity.

Chelsea Handler

#12. Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.

Harold E. Hughes

#13. There is no gravity in the Planet of Love; everything floats in the air.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Mary Russell Mitford

#15. Well, she'd been in shock. She could've believed just about anything. The Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, Santa... Yes, Virginia, men do let you down.

Melissa Tagg

#16. Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop. What holds us back is often a lack of courage.

Gary Chapman

#17. Your lingering cigarette smell makes me feel more empty.

Mika Yamamori