Scent Quotes - Page 9

• In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.

  Megan Fox

  Regret, Past, Reality

  "Megan Fox In ‘Interview’: I Lied About My Personality", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.

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• There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.

  Angela Thirkell

  Sweet, Nature, Smell

  Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

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• 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

  Flower, Men, Wind

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.

  William Carlos Williams

  Imagination, Rose, Instant

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.310, New Directions Publishing

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• I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

  Red Smith

  Cooking, Cabbage

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• ... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law ... it looks as if it had been made out of a sow's ear for the spathe, and the tail of a rat that died of Elephantiasis for the spadix. The whole thing is mingling of unwholesome greens, livid purples, and pallid pinks, the livery of putrescence in fact, and it possesses and odour to match the colouring.

  Edward Augustus Bowles

  Mother, Nature, Flower

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• The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

  John Bunyan

  Sweet, Heart, Beaten

  John Bunyan (1769). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: ... Being several discourses upon various divine subjects. The second edition, with the following additions: I. A preface ... II. Some account of the life and death of the author, ...”, p.506

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• The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.

  Aldous Huxley

  Simple, Keys, Light

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Song, Nature, Congratulations

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent.

  Francis Kurkdjian

  Fake, Different, Type

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.

  Meir Shalev

  Memories, Desire, Stories

  Meir Shalev (2011). “My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir”, p.140, Schocken

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• More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Spring, Pale Yellow, Years

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• Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

  Jules Verne

  Two, America, Enemy

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.79, Jules Verne

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• There isn't one thing in particular; rather, a lot of different things give me inspiration. I tend to come up with tunes when I do things that are not part of my daily routine, like traveling. But even during my everyday life, I come up with tunes when I'm emotionally moved. By looking at a beautiful picture, scenery, tasting something delicious, scents that bring back memories, happy and sad things... Anything that moves my emotion gives me inspiration.

  Yoko Shimomura

  Beautiful, Memories, Moving

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• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Walking Away, Wife

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• We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return

  Antoine de Pluvinel

  Horse, Friendly, Care

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• The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.

  Rod Taylor

  Beautiful, Girl, Sweet

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• Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Light, Smell

  Bill Maher (2005). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.185, Rodale

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• Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Hands, Ideas, People

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• Some things never leave a person:
  scent of the hair of one you love,
  the texture of persimmons,
  in your palm, the ripe weight.

  Li-Young Lee

  Hair, Texture, Weight

  Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.19, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

  Emile Zola

  Food, Smell, Cooking

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• If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Food, Blessing, Cooking

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• The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God.

  John Bunyan

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  John Bunyan (1850). “The works of John Bunyan: With an introduction to each treatise, notes, and a sketch of his life, times, and contemporaries”, p.710

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• Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

  Anais Nin

  Flower, Sunset, Blood

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• Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Running, Air, Circles

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