Smell Quotes - Page 36

• The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children.

  George Herbert

  Love, Children, Salt

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• The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell that beautiful perfume; they follow that smell. That perfume creates a yearning in their hearts for their Lord, and as a result the sincere believers increase their pace, efforts and devotions.

  Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Islamic

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• The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.

  Chief Seattle

  Rain, Native American, Men

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• Men love death. In everything they make, they hollow out a central place for death, let its rancid smell contaminate every dimension of whatever still survives. Men especially love murder. In art they celebrate it, and in life they commit it. They embrace murder as if life without it would be devoid of passion, meaning, and action, as if murder were solace, stilling their sobs as they mourn the emptiness and alienation of their lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Art, Passion, Men

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• I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the scene could easily be in London, Paris, New York of LA. My eyes are burning, my knees hurt and I hate to say it, but a certain and vital part of my nether region is beginning to smell like peanut butter. Welcome to life on tour.

  Corey Taylor

  Hurt, New York, Hate

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• You ever tasted a smell? It's a very strange feeling. I've done it quite a few times and it still freaks me out.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Feelings, Done

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• A very ancient and fish-like smell.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Ancient, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 2, l. [27]

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• The time for compromise has now passed, and the South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Southern, Steel

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• Ozil could find the needle in a haystack with his sense of smell.

  Ray Hudson

  Football, Needles, Needle In A Haystack

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• Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Dry Up, Law

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• The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Men, Sight

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.159, OUP Oxford

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• Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting.

  Frank Schoonmaker

  Wine, Piano, Five Senses

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• When you see a guy go down, you smell blood in the water.

  Anthony Famiglietti

  Running, Blood, Water

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• Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Success, Book, Reading

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• I'm a big PAX person... just because it's accessible. I feel like between the weed and the wax it's kind of like BetaMax and VHS. You can carry it around, people don't really know what it is, no smell.

  Donald Glover

  Weed, People, Kind

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• Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, War, Men

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 270

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• The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas

  George Stapledon

  Country, Nature, Inspiration

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• William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was 'A smell of petroleum prevails throughout'.

  Bertrand Russell

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.109, Routledge

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• I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Eye, Blood

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• It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They begin only when you experience them, vanish when others follow.

  Andrzej Stasiuk

  Country, Children, Memories

  Andrzej Stasiuk (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.79, HMH

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• I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

  Levi Johnston

  Oxygen, Years, Juicy

  Levi Johnston (2011). “Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Scratches

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• I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Girl, Beer, Men

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• I dont wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. Thats basically what I smell like.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Deodorant, Showers, Cologne

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• If you eat Chinese food, your farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts come out like Mexican food. And milk, it’s like - you can smell the warmth in the fart. My wardrobe on Transformers always smells like farts, and I have no idea why.

  Megan Fox

  Ideas, Mexican, Chinese

  "Megan Fox: Obsession". www.gq.com. October 31, 2008.

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