Smell Quotes - Page 38

• When I fart my ass makes a trumpet sound that heralds the arrival of the smell.

  Adam Carolla

  Funny, Humor, Sound

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• It had a huge impact on me, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ – and I was very proud when I found out that Kurt Cobain was a fan of mine. I thought he was awesome.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Impact, Fans, Proud

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• Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity, as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed'

  Ann Coulter

  Nice, Fundamentalist Religion, Names

  "The passion of the liberal". townhall.com. March 4, 2004.

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• I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t.

  Bill Maher

  Plato, Father, Thinking

  "Mark Levin Rips Bill Maher for Saying Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Tea Partiers" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. January 18, 2011.

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• During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

  Patrick Stewart

  Jobs, Years, Oil

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• Perfume is magic. It's mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams.

  M.J. Rose

  Dream, Memories, Flower

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• The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

  Bertrice Small

  Sweet, Gentleman

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• The fish,
  Even in the fisherman's net,
  Still carries,
  The smell of the sea.

  Mourid Barghouti

  Sea, Fisherman, Fishes

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• I hover over the expensive Scotch and then the Armagnac, but finally settle on a glass of rich red claret. I put it near my nose and nearly pass out. It smells of old houses and aged wood and dark secrets, but also of hard, hot sunshine through ancient shutters and long, wicked afternoons in a four-poster bed. It's not a wine, it's a life, right there in the glass.

  Nick Harkaway

  Wine, Sunshine, Dark

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• Because dead people are just like you and me, they still want things. They look at us all the time, and they miss being alive. We have taste and color and smell and feelings, and they don’t have any of those things.
  They stare at us, they don’t miss anything. They really see what’s going on, and we hardly ever really see that. We’re too busy thinking about things and getting everything wrong, so we miss ninety percent of what’s happening.

  Peter Straub

  Thinking, Color, People

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• I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.

  Dennis Franz

  Thinking, Rooms, Filled

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• I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

  Rick Bass

  Light, Rooms, Baking

  Rick Bass (2003). “The Hermit's Story: Stories”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search of literary inspiration and young flesh are probably over for good. Hippies can just as easily get their bong riffs in Portland or Peoria. But the good stuff, the real good stuff, the sounds and smells and the look of Tangier -- what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in -- that's here to stay.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Real, Hippie

  "Morocco (Tangier)". www.cnn.com.

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• Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

  James P. Hogan

  Success, Nice, Fart

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• Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

  Alyssa Milano

  Baseball, Sight, Games

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• When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

  Haruki Murakami

  Birthday, Writing, Remembers Everything

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• I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.

  Teju Cole

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Ideas, Age

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Idols, Puff

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• The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Looks, May

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• You want the scent? Smell yourself!

  Hannibal

  Scent, Want

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• The Devil is right at home. The Devil, the Devil himself, is right in the house. And the Devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the Devil came here. Right here. And it smells of sulphur still today. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the Devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

  Hugo Chavez

  Home, Talking, Yesterday

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 2006

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• A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Two, Noses, Sniffing

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• Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is, physically it has changed remarkably little. People's feelings about it, rather, have changed. The neighborhood shows a strange inability to update itself, enliven itself, repair itself, or to be sought after, out of choice, by a new generation. It is dead. Actually it was dead from birth, but nobody noticed this much until the corpse began to smell.

  Jane Jacobs

  Regret, Years, People

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• We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

  Jean Craighead George

  Horse, Pigs, Mountain

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