Ocean Smell Quotes

#1. We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last.

Tove Jansson

#2. Players rested under that huge root among rotten woods and polished rocks on the Portal Cove beach. Ocean smell and dull sun made this break pleasant and refreshing.

J.M.K. Walkow

#3. The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.

Sara Sheridan

#4. I inhale, and the two best smells in my world get trapped in my lungs: the salty, cool sting of the ocean in the morning and sweet, morning-sweaty smell of Whit.

Steph Campbell

#5. My wolf-sharpened sense of smell caught the scent of ice-cream cones, of asphalt, of churning ocean, of swirling beer, of first kisses and last kisses.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

Albert Einstein

#7. As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

Mat Kearney

#8. The smell of the ocean, southern breeze, blue sky, and the gentle sound of dancing waves make me sing the song of love.

Debasish Mridha

#9. I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory.

Sherman Alexie

#10. Books for me were what the ocean is to the fearless explorer-deep and mysterious, boundless and soothing. I loved the smell of books, the feel of their weight in my hands, the rustle of the pages as I turned them, the magnificent illustrations on the covers that promised hidden treasures within.

Steve Pemberton

#11. The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she crooned them to sleep. Everywhere, there was the smell of salt.

Hala Alyan

#12. I took the guinea, and put it in my purse.

George MacDonald

#13. You smell salty," he says. "Like the ocean." He leans closer to me and licks up the side of my face. "You taste salty too. Maybe I should grab a bottle of tequila and we should have some fun." He moves his eyebrows up and down. "What do you say? We'll do some shots and I'll lick you all over.

Jillian Dodd

#14. Aomame closed her eyes and, in a split second, reviewed the long span of years as if standing on the edge of a sheer cliff, surveying an ocean channel below. She could smell the sea. She could hear the deep sighing of the wind.

Haruki Murakami

#15. Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic ...

Van Morrison

#16. 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

#17. God generously gave him everything else that's good, but why did he leave out all intelligence?

Ding Ling

#18. It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Elizabeth Warren

#19. Ay, down to the dust with them, slaves as they are! From this hour let the blood in their dastardly veins, That shrunk at the first touch of Liberty's war, Be wasted for tyrants, or stagnate in chains.

Charles Lamb

#20. I've always lived by the ocean, and I always will. There's nothing like taking a walk and being able to smell the ocean breeze.

Matthew Underwood

#21. But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

Robert Solow

#22. Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.
("Hard Candy")

Tennessee Williams

#23. There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer.

Eudora Welty

#24. The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

Charles Stross

#25. Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of salt air, it affects them deeply and has inspired many of their lovliest songs. There is one that tells of this love, if you want to hear it.

Christopher Paolini

#26. The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean.

Ernest Hemingway,

#27. Smell the sea and feel the sky.

Van Morrison

#28. A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the air.

Sebastian Junger

#29. I could faintly smell the ocean. I imagined being one of the old oak trees standing there swaying in the wind and braving all sorts of weather. I pondered what they had seen in the past and what they might see in the future

Nancy B. Brewer

#30. You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

Ruben Studdard

#31. No- it was the best. Kind of joint where everyone checked their worries at the door. The beer was cold, the jokes came easy, we could smell the ocean, and everyone was always happy to be there.

Anna Godbersen

#32. The light was luminescence and gloom, like the sky at midnight speckled with stars. All she could smell was the ocean...

Samantha Lee Churcher

#33. [My father] was handsome and tanned and smelled wonderful, like a mix of the ocean and fresh-cut grass, except when he smoked his pipe, which also smelled wonderful, as how I thought wisdom must smell, when it curls about your head.

Carolyn Weber

#34. We'll always have each other. As long as we have that, it will always be Eden.

Keary Taylor