Smell Quotes - Page 40

• Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter.

  Martha Stewart

  Funny Valentines Day, Cat, Poop

  Martha Stewart (2005). “The World According to Martha”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I do not believe there is any such sixth sense. A man with a good sense of direction is, to me, quite simply an able pathfinder - a natural navigator - somebody who can find his way by the use of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch - the senses he was born with) developed by the blessing of experience and the use of intelligence. All that pathfinder needs is his senses and knowledge of how to interpret nature's signs.

  Harold Gatty

  Believe, Blessing, Men

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• People think updos are so hard, but they're not. Your hair should look tousled and undone. If I'm in a mood to go out and feel hot and sexy, I want long hair that I can feel on my back. But I also like bed head. Ill usually wash my hair and let it air-dry wavy, but if I'm just in a hang-out mood, I wont even wash it. Ill wait until it smells.

  Jessica Simpson

  Sexy, Thinking, Hair

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• Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Airplane, Wings, Ideas

  Wolfgang Langewiesche (1994). “Stick & Rudder: 50th Anniversary Edition”, McGraw-Hill

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• I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Art, Thinking, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love that smell of the emissions!

  Sarah Palin

  Emissions

  "Support Palin! Put a comedian to work!" By Dean Obeidallah, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2011.

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• The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in space is as bound up with them as might be their colour or smell ... Therefore the painter must be as concerned with the air surrounding his subject as with the subject itself. It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

  Lucian Freud

  Air, Space, Giving

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• I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily, and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Appreciate, Tape, Want

  "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Art, Past, Color

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• Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

  Michel Serres

  Sight, Hearing, Taste

  Michel Serres (2016). “The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

  Chuck Jones

  Wall, Flower, Bird

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• I have these surreal moments where I’m like ‘I’m pregnant with Jake Gyllenhaal’s baby’ and ‘I’m telling Robert Pattinson that he smells of sex.’ But you’re acting, so the focus is on the work.

  Sarah Gadon

  Baby, Sex, Focus

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• The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Sex, Drama

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I am inside someone
  who hates me. I look
  out from his eyes. Smell
  what fouled tunes come in
  to his breath. Love his
  wretched women.

  Amiri Baraka

  Hate, Eye, Tunes

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.67, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Reality, Missing, Tears

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• The woman who loves always smells good.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Love Always

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• They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and
  hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and then, because cats live by
  their ability to smell, it can no longer recognize things. I'm a cat that hit
  its nose.

  Umberto Eco

  Fall, Cat, Noses

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• The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

  Heinz Kohut

  Men, Empathy, Understanding

  Heinz Kohut (2012). “The Restoration of the Self”, p.144, University of Chicago Press

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• An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his
  creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably
  found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with
  sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine
  perfume.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sacrifice, Men, Blood

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

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• Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.

  Donna Karan

  Spiritual, Memories, Powerful

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• I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose
  between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

  George Gissing

  Book, Reading, Noses

  George Gissing (2015). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.22, George Gissing

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• The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us like magnetism, a spirit torque. This is how one becomes undone by a smell, a word, a place, the photo of a mountain of shoes. By love that closes its mouth before calling a name.

  Anne Michaels

  Rain, Past, Names

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.15, A&C Black

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• The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral memory. The swells rose sluggishly and fell away, casting up dismal gleams between the boards of the pier. And the whole pier rose and fell in stiff and creaking mimicry, dancing its long slow dance of dissolution. I reached the end and saw no one, heard nothing but my footsteps and the creak of the beams, the slap of waves on the pilings. It was a fifteen-foot drop to the dim water. The nearest land ahead of me was Hawaii.

  Ross Macdonald

  Memories, Moving, Sea

  Ross Macdonald (2012). “The Drowning Pool”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Food, Lakes, Sea

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• I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

  Steven Morrissey

  Burning, Flesh, Humans

  "Morrissey Forced Off Stage at Coachella by Smell of Burning Meat" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2009.

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