Top 100 Quotes About The Smell
#1. I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.
Judy Blume
#2. I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#3. 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
#4. You nurslings of Protestantism astonish me. You unguarded Englishwomen walk calmly amidst red-hot ploughshares and escape burning. I believe, if some of you were thrown into Nebuchadnezzar's hottest furnace you would issue forth untraversed by the smell of fire.
Charlotte Bronte
#5. Sitting in the water, she imagined the smell of it, mapped out on her papa's clothes. More than anything, it was the smell of friendship, and she could find it on herself, too. Liesel loved that smell. She would sniff her arm and smile as the water cooled around her.
Markus Zusak
#6. The pig had been killed because spirits, like people, cannot resist the smell of cooking pig.
Peter Matthiessen
#7. I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.
Sigmund Freud
#8. They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic.
Max Gladstone
#9. The taste of good coffee, so deep and complex that it was almost a crime to describe it by a single name. The sound of rain falling on the pavement, the smell of petrichor and moistened loam. The color of a single raven's feather in the sunlight, rainbows caught in ebony - ==========
Anonymous
#10. My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
Charles Baudelaire
#11. I love the smell of Chai Tea in the morning... (What should have been said in "Apocalypse Now")
Sakinaa Davies
#12. She slowly rolled the book over in her hands, memorizing the cover as she said goodbye. She flipped through the pages, feeling the air on her face and breathing in the smell of the paper.
Sage Steadman
#13. I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book.
Chaim Potok
#14. Wow. This place looks classy. The smell of fertilizer and rot is really in this season. Remind me, what are we doing here?" she asked looking at him with a coy smile. "Did we come for bait?
Dennis Sharpe
#15. The smell of oranges has always reminded me of funerals.
Lauren Oliver
#16. The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#17. I love just going into stores and testing fragrances. The smell of a fragrance is kind of like hearing a song, it makes you feel something that's really unique to you and can be quite exciting.
Erin Heatherton
#18. If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.
Mika.
#19. And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'
Peter Ackroyd
#20. Wow," he said after their lips parted. Her taste still haunted his mouth, and the smell of her perfume lingered in his nostrils. "I guess I'll have to get in fights more often.
Joe DeRouen
#21. Summertime in the french countryside is the smell of ripening fig trees and the taste of wild blackberries.
Vicki Archer
#22. Recognize the cost is your life, and willingly lay yourself down. The world hates the smell of that sacrifice, because it is the smell of grace. They hate it because it is the smell of something living and burning at the same time - something that is impossible without a risen Savior.
Tony Reinke
#23. Before games, the smell of burgers wafts down from the stands.
Gary Neville
#24. PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
Ambrose Bierce
#25. The worst thing about the dead rising? (Other than, you know, all the zombies?) The smell. Nothing kills the mood like the odor of three day old road kill and poo ... -Katherine Anita Cho(KyCH)
Shawn Durnin
#26. I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
LaMarr Woodley
#27. If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.
Mark Pryor
#28. My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
Kate Moss
#29. There was something dead in my heart.
I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse.
I had a dead mouse in my heart.
Richard Brautigan
#30. My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.
Chuck Schumer
#31. I realized everyone around me was wearing a uniform. Black pants, white button-down shirts, green ties. Gotta love the smell of institutional equality in the morning.
Francesca Zappia
#32. And when Dr. Daruwalla breathed in her dangerous aroma, he thought he'd at last identified the smell of sex, which struck him as an earthy commingling of death and flowers
John Irving
#33. He closed his eyes and allowed himself to remember the taste of her and the feel of her and the smell of her. She was quite lovely. She was altogether ravishing. She would set any man's blood on fire. He shouldn't have kissed her.
Marguerite Kaye
#34. In a forum online I saw a thread about favourite smells. There was the usual stuff about fresh cut grass, babies, and whatever, but slowly a controversial contingent arose which named the smell of their own balls as their favourite aroma.
Drew Nellins Smith
#35. I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory.
Sherman Alexie
#36. But even that day, there on the porch, with Charles beside me and the smell of wood smoke in the air, it had the quality of a memory; there it was, before my eyes, and yet too beautiful to believe.
Donna Tartt
#37. Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.
Mark McKinney
#38. The smell of books soothed his soul like nothing else could. The store was his haven, his refuge, and most importantly, it was safe. Here he could go anywhere in the world, explore the seas, scale mountains, travel through time and space or fall in love.
Sheri Lyn
#39. 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
#40. A New York doctor has finished a five year study on what smells have the biggest effect on New Yorkers. The smell New Yorkers like the most: vanilla. The smell New Yorkers like the least: New Jersey.
Jay Leno
#41. Roasted sweet potatoes are like illicit sex in the old Chinese saying, "Having it isn't as good as not having it." The smell is better than the taste. When you smell it, you feel you must have one, but once you actually sink your teeth into it, you find it's not really anything special.
Qian Zhongshu
#43. And Francie whispered yeah in agreement. She was proud of that smell. It let her know that nearby was a waterway, which, dirty though it was, joined a river that flowed out to the sea. To her, the stupendous stench suggested far-sailing ships and adventure and she was pleased with the smell.
Betty Smith
#44. There is the smell, too, of course
the reassuring smell of paper, new paper, soft old paper, recalling each person to the first time they really did press their nose into a book.
Deborah Meyler
#45. Hey guys, stop locking antlers. The smell of testosterone is overriding the farts.
Lisa Marie Rice
#46. Now, I am a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their shoes, the smell of their legs, the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging.
P.G. Wodehouse
#47. The best horror novels open up, It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.
Justin Alcala
#48. His lady scowls and asks, "Are you a man? If you can't stand the smell, get out of the can. I'd whack him myself, but he looks like my dad, And killing him thus would be Freudian mad.
Mr. Z
#49. Every man knows the smell of his own fart.
Confucius
#50. I'm kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? I'm like that, except with crying.
Nicola Yoon
#51. I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.
Leah Spiegel
#52. War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.
Myles Standish
#53. The smell would have given me an erection if I'd still had testicles.
Garth Stein
#54. Ben starts. "I Spy with my little eye something I really like."
"Oh I know," Radar says. "It's the taste of balls."
"No."
"Is it the taste of penises?" I guess.
"No, dumbass."
"Hmm," says Radar. "Is it the smell of balls?"
"The texture of balls?
John Green
#55. I've always hated the big United Way drive at work. Not because of the United Way. Great organization. Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.
Kris Dunn
#56. The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
Juvenal
#57. It had been the first kiss for both of them, and to this day, when Dean kissed a woman, he longed for the smell of the sea.
Kristin Hannah
#58. She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.
Nicole Lyons
#59. It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Rebecca West
#60. There was something about the smell of books, the ink-and-paper-and-leather scent, the way dust in a library seemed to behave differently from the dust in any other room
it was golden in the light of the witchlight tapers, setting like pollen across the polished surfaces of long tables.
Cassandra Clare
#61. Wanted to let Jobs go, but Bushnell worked out a solution. The smell and behavior wasn't an issue with
Walter Isaacson
#62. I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies ...
In the Hills, the Cities
Clive Barker
#63. The smell was like chocolate and cookies and biscuits and gravy and everything else that was delicious. It damn near drove me crazy every time I had to touch one. I'd been fighting the cravings the way I'd never fought the urge to take drugs or get drunk.
Diana Rowland
#64. He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrence was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.
P. Harding
#65. And we were married and all the windows were open but the smell of flowers was so thick and sickly sweet. I felt like I might choke to death.
Augusten Burroughs
#66. The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us ...
Marcel Proust
#67. Inhaled. The way you would a peach, when you can't get enough of the smell and you want more.
Alessandra Torre
#68. Everywhere now there was the smell of burning grass.
Willa Cather
#69. I miss the smell of him. I miss his lips and his strong arms. I miss him.
Kimberly Derting
#70. The smell of hyacinths in the summer night air. At this moment, standing here with a boy I just met who already feels like home, I am overwhelmed with city love.
Susane Colasanti
#71. I love this. I love you, the feel of you, the smell of you, just you,
Mia Sheridan
#72. Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth.
Itachi: You've learnt a lot ... Dr. Snakes
Masashi Kishimoto
#73. I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
James Dyson
#74. Still, as messed-up as it was, I really liked the feel of her bare arms and the smell of her hair. I got mad at myself right away and told myself I wasn't one of those guys, told myself it was just the hit to the head that was making me think that way.
Amanda Lance
#75. As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.
Peter Garrett
#76. 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
#77. I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they're wet and you smell them all warm liked a baked good. Love it.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#78. I'm a very big fan of winter-flowering shrubs and bulbs. You have the smell, you have the color - it's really like a present from God when something like that is in flower in the middle of the snow.
Dries Van Noten
#79. See? Instead of thinking of a way to help my people, all I can think of is the smell of your hair and that small dimple on your cheek when you smile. (Victor)
A.B. Whelan
#80. Although I don't know Oslo at all, there is something about the feel or the smell of the place that feels like home, which is quite interesting.
Alexander Hanson
#81. It is spring, and the night wind
is moist with the smell of turned loam
and the early flowers;
the moon pours out its beauty
which you see as beauty finally,
warm and offering everything.
You have only to take.
Margaret Atwood
#82. The air's crisp with the smell of autumn, and the first few leaves have started to change color. The streets have that family-friendly feel. Store windows already have pumpkins and witches' hats in them.
Adriana Mather
#83. He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love.
Libba Bray
#84. When you smell a flower, where is the smell before you smell the flower? Think about that one.
Art Hochberg
#85. Of its usage. The Creator loves the smell of sweetgrass. If you smoke the pipe and pray and then put sweetgrass on the fire, he will listen to you.
Kent Nerburn
#86. That smell mixed with the scent of getting tied up and fucked became the smell of complete release, of an orchestra connected by the simple movements of a skilled conductor.
C.D. Reiss
#87. I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.
Scott Caan
#88. I knew I was in England by the smell.
Erica Jong
#89. Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was so precious: To think that people had years and years, time to waste, so much time it dragged, and he was clinging to each second.
J.K. Rowling
#90. Mary Walker rolled down her window, hoping the fresh October air would enliven her. Instead, the smell of autumn, the breeze, and the half-hidden moon reminded
Ernie Lindsey
#91. I recognize the smell - his smell - spice and rain.
Sabaa Tahir
#92. I'd open the door in the morning and the slightly sweet smell of second hand books would greet me. For years I wondered just what that smell was. In the end I decided it was the smell of human thought embedded in paper.
Heather Rose
#93. Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit.
Thomas Pynchon
#95. Boston is a great center of learning. That surgeon was a tantric Buddha," said Ram in admiration, "The smell of cautery is the finest incense. It sharpens the mind.
Joe Niemczura
#97. What a good morning it was. Tyler stood before her, six-plus feet of denim-clad hotness. A woodsy scent wafted toward her, and she inhaled deeply, loving the smell of his cologne. The man was gorgeous, and he was hers for the next twenty-four hours.
Rachel Harris
#98. The Sixties were an era of extreme reality. I miss the smell of tear gas. I miss the fear of getting beaten.
Hunter S. Thompson
#99. As if he were trying to escape the smell of her words as if the air from her talking came into his mouth and filled it puffed it up with poison so the brain was put to sleep and he could do nothing with it only react in his flesh.
Michael Ondaatje
