Top 100 Quotes About Odor
#1. Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.
Claes Oldenburg
#2. I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.
Franz Kafka
#3. Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.
David Eagleman
#4. Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.
David H. Millar
#5. You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.
Kenji Mizoguchi
#6. The Fulton Fish Market will be more of an odor than a landmark at this time of day, but it really swings out at four o'clock in the morning - another Timothy 'Speed' Levitch recommendation if you can't sleep and you like fish.
Timothy Levitch
#7. The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
William Greider
#8. Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten.
Gautama Buddha
#9. There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
Alison Lurie
#10. The air is pure under the ground. There is no odor of men.
Ayn Rand
#11. No self-respecting cat wants to have its subtle personal odor masked by overtones of lavender or rose petals.
Nicholas Dodman
#12. pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he'd hung from the mirror couldn't mask.
Ransom Riggs
#13. Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something.
Baron Vaughn
#14. Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.
James Joyce
#15. The lawn mower attends with defeaning shudder to the tonsure; a light odor of fresh hay intoxicates the air; the leveled grass finds again a bristling infancy; but the bite of the blades reveals unevenness, mangy clearings, yellow patches.
Italo Calvino
#16. Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.
Patrick Suskind
#17. And oh, could he smell them. It wasn't just the stench of body sweat. It was the rancid odor of human meat. With every breath they gave it off. Blood under their tongue. Long pork between their teeth. Eau de cannibal.
Chuck Wendig
#18. How would you be able to detect a fart over your natural odor, Sanza?" "For shame," said Galdo. "There's no Sanzas here, remember? I'm an Asino." "Oh yes," said Locke with a yawn. "Yes, you certainly are.
Scott Lynch
#19. Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.
Hilary Mantel
#20. The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers.
Amanda Coplin
#21. You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?
Autumn Doughton
#22. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
#23. Jack Miller aimed his shotgun at the monster's grey-skinned head and pulled the trigger. Green sludge and bits of bone and flesh splattered through the air to land on the street, the gory aftermath releasing a noxious, sulfurous odor.
Danielle Monsch
#24. My father's mood surrounded him like a field and affected any room he occupied, like an odor or a certain cast to the light.
David Foster Wallace
#25. It may be that actual tears have stained the tile floors or soaked into the carpets of such places. It may be that these tears can never be removed. And everywhere the odor of melancholy, that is the very odor of memory.
Joyce Carol Oates
#26. The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it.
Rene Daumal
#27. Guess who has PE first hour? This is so unfair. I start the day off perspiring like an elephant in heat. Don't the people who make up our schedule understand body odor? Don't they understand frizzy hair?
Becca Fitzpatrick
#28. The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.
James K. Morrow
#29. Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#30. An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.
Kaoru Kurimoto
#31. The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a rumor, faint and stale.
Cormac McCarthy
#32. [His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.
Michael Chabon
#33. It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#34. There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
William McFee
#35. Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
Jasper Fforde
#36. My darling looks like a little girl when she awakens. You couldn't think she is the mother of two big brats. And her skin has a lovely smell, like new-cut grass, the most cozy and comforting odor I know.
John Steinbeck
#37. There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
Maureen Howard
#38. It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can be more insipid in detail - just as the heavenly fragrance of the rose becomes vapid and sickly under all the attempts made to retain and embody its exquisite odor.
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
#39. No mystery surrounded his nickname: he was enormous and he was filthy. Pig smelled so bad it confused people. When they encountered his reek, they looked around him for the source, so implausible did it seem that the odor could emanate from a human.
Michael Punke
#40. December brought stone-silent days though a fresh odor came from the heavy sky, the smell of cold purity that was the essence of the boreal forest. So
Annie Proulx
#41. Body odor mixed with deodorant must make chloroform.
Belle Aurora
#42. The only cities were of ice, bergs with cores of beryl, blue gems within white gems, that some said gave off an odor of almonds.
Annie Proulx
#43. What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.
- Big Daddy
Tennessee Williams
#44. Considering what a hot, wed dog smells like, dog stew has a surprisingly savory odor To tell the truth, it tastes pretty good, like oxtail. To be perfectly honest, it's delicious. (Anything about this to my golden retriever, and I'll punch your lights out.)
P. J. O'Rourke
#45. The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
Henry Ward Beecher
#46. As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.
Thomas Hobbes
#47. There was that odor about her: not a sweetness, exactly, but a wildness suggesting breezes that have touched cold water and living wood.
R.A. MacAvoy
#48. I get out of the car, and I'm blasted by the stench of body odor. Cricket is beside me, and he's talking, but his words don't reach my ears.
Because it's my mother.
Smelling.
On my porch.
Stephanie Perkins
#49. A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.
Dorothea Dix
#51. And when Hightower approaches, the smell of plump unwashed flesh and unfresh clothing
that odor of unfastidious sedentation, of static overflesh not often enough bathed
is well nigh overpowering. [ ... ] It is the odor of goodness. Of course it would smell bad to us that are bad and sinful.
William Faulkner
#52. There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.
Rainbow Rowell
#53. All that anybody has in the way of a reputation anymore is an odor which, from birth to death, cannot be modified. People are who they are, and that is that. The Law of Natural Selection has made human beings absolutely honest in that regard. Everybody is exactly what he or she seems to be.
Kurt Vonnegut
#54. A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the 'pieds de Dieu' - the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still - foot odor.
Michael Pollan
#55. He first noticed it on the plane ride. There was an odor about her and it was becoming more pronounced with each passing hour. It was like the smell of rotting meat.
Joseph M. Chiron
#56. Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.
Ethel Waters
#57. I recall the words, the faces, the stale perfume and the pungent odor that filled the room..
Nancy B. Brewer
#58. There was a strong odor of electricity, grease and existential bitterness.
K.A. Bedford
#59. Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Christy Mathewson
#60. To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.
Zora Neale Hurston
#61. The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death.
Jeff Shaara
#62. So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in the evening.
Charles Darwin
#63. I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!
Elinor Wylie
#64. The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.
Max Muller
#65. If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.
Richard Selzer
#66. Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
Henry Ward Beecher
#67. We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.
Alexander Crummell
#68. Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.
William Maxwell
#69. Niten drew in a deep shuddering breath and the air was suffused with the delicate odor of green tea.
"And Tsagaglalal ... "
"Yes, Father?"
Prometheus closed his eyes. "Tell Niten to find Aoife and ask her the question. Tell him ... tell him she will say yes.
Michael Scott
#70. And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad.
Ellen DeGeneres
#71. Information in the heads of crazy people is a contagion. Information sets you free from craziness too, it's the only antidote, but I mean people's thoughts are like their body odor, it can carry.
Ethan Indigo Smith
#72. Grenouille's mother, however, perceived the odor neither of the fish nor of the corpses, for her sense of smell had been utterly dulled, besides which her belly hurt, and the pain deadened all susceptibility of sensate impressions.
Patrick Suskind
#73. Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away.
Jello Biafra
#74. In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.
John Edward Williams
#75. The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.
Luther Burbank
#76. One word came to mind: pee-yew. Evan tried to place the odor; it wasn't a heap of decayed garbage or that of a spoiled fish. Truth be told, he smelled like rotten cheese.
H.B. Bolton
#77. She was skinny, like a salted anchovy, she gave off an odor of wildness, she had a long face, narrow at the temples, framed by two bands of smooth black hair. But
Elena Ferrante
#78. Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
William Wetmore Story
#80. Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand - they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.
Dennis Lehane
#81. I definitely smelled a delicious odor of steak and onions. But it turned out to be only a dirty shirt.
Thor Heyerdahl
#82. When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
Ray Bradbury
#83. Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
Ulysses S. Grant
#84. Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#85. In spite of the air conditioning, she had filled the lounge with a faint sharp-sweet odor of large overheated girl.
John D. MacDonald
#86. If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path?
Charles Platt
#87. She hates herself a little for it. Zoey can smell him now, an acrid tang of body odor mixed with the last tinges of vanilla that all the clothes are washed in. The scent makes her want to vomit. "Pretty,
Joe Hart
#88. Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.
Homer
#89. Rich in odor-producing sulfides, the meaty poop of carnivores tends to smell horrendous. As for their herbivore prey? A high-fiber, leafy diet exits the body without making much of a stink.
Deuce Flanagan
#90. His latest job [My Dad] had been as a truck driver, picking up and delivering diapers. For months, he had complained bitterly about the odor and the mess, saying it was the worst job in the world. But now that he had lost it, he seemed to want it back.
Howard Schultz And Dori Jones Yang
#91. By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea,
From there the wind comes and blows over the world,
By the sandy water I breathe in the odor of the sea,
From there the clouds come and rain falls over the world.
Jane Bierhorst
#92. The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor.
Dwayne Johnson
#93. Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God!
Rumi
#94. The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.
E.B. White
#95. It was queer how it all hurt you--how the odor of the night, the silver sheen of the moon, the moist feeling of the dew, the whispering of the night breeze, how somewhere down in your throat it hurt you.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#96. The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
Christina Stead
#97. With good morality first candidates you'll get bad candor, bad ethics, bad loyalty and bad morality - lastly bad odor will surface to save the day if you maintain good optimism like I do.
Brian Spellman
#98. An odor of June mud, backwashed with essence of meadow-grass and a whiff of cow.
Gregory Maguire
#99. The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
Peter Tork
#100. The rancid odor mixed with the dust, death, and confusion as they awaited those who could clean up the mess and make death official.
G.G. Collins
