Top Smell Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Smell quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Barbara Pym
Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.
- Barbara Pym
Collection: Smell
Image of George Ade
One smell of brimstone makes the whole world kin.
- George Ade
Collection: Smell
Image of William Carlos Williams
First we have to see. Or first we have to be taught to see. We have to be taught to see here, because here is everywhere, related to everywhere else, and if we don't see, hear, taste, smell and feel in this place - not only will we never know anything but the world of sense will be by that much diminished everywhere.
- William Carlos Williams
Collection: Smell
Image of Blaize Clement
Perfume companies ought to bottle the smell of crisp bacon. Forget pheromones. I’ll bet a woman with a little spot of bacon grease behind her ears would attract every male within a five-mile radius.
- Blaize Clement
Collection: Smell
Image of Joe Dunthorne
I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.
- Joe Dunthorne
Collection: Smell
Image of Dylan Moran
Vodka is a very deceptive drink, because you drink it and you think, "What is this? This is pointless! It's - you can't taste it, you can't smell it... Why did we waste our money on this, bloody - why are we on a traffic island?"
- Dylan Moran
Collection: Smell
Image of Louis Sachar
Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?
- Louis Sachar
Collection: Smell
Image of Rod Blagojevich
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
Collection: Smell
Image of Jonathan Stroud
So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.
- Jonathan Stroud
Collection: Smell
Image of Jim Thompson
What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.
- Jim Thompson
Collection: Smell
Image of Wilferd Peterson
A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.
- Wilferd Peterson
Collection: Smell
Image of Kirby Larson
Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
- Kirby Larson
Collection: Smell
Image of Matthew Woodring Stover
A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.
- Matthew Woodring Stover
Collection: Smell
Image of Jon Stewart
The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.
- Jon Stewart
Collection: Smell
Image of Eva Ibbotson
She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose].
- Eva Ibbotson
Collection: Smell
Image of J. Courtney Sullivan
I love the smell of a mans skin.
- J. Courtney Sullivan
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Image of Rick Bass
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
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Image of Richard Pryor
I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells.
- Richard Pryor
Collection: Smell
Image of Omar N. Bradley
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves. Others lay in the streets where they had fallen. ... Eisenhower's face whitened into a mask. Patton walked over to a corner and sickened. I was too revolted to speak. For here death had been so fouled by degradation that it both stunned and numbed us.
- Omar N. Bradley
Collection: Smell
Image of Patrick Süskind
This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instant you forgot all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine.
- Patrick Süskind
Collection: Smell
Image of Chris Paul
Obviously I want the fragrance to smell good. I tell people all the time that when you see someone there can obviously be a physical attraction, but scent is something that stays with you. It's something that you remember about a person.
- Chris Paul
Collection: Smell
Image of Margot Robbie
I remember specific times and people in my life so much more clearly if I smell something that brings me back to them.
- Margot Robbie
Collection: Smell
Image of Reginald Horace Blyth
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.
- Reginald Horace Blyth
Collection: Smell
Image of Andy Puddicombe
Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference.
- Andy Puddicombe
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Image of Peg Bracken
Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.
- Peg Bracken
Collection: Smell
Image of Pedro
Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.
- Pedro
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Image of Scott Caan
I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.
- Scott Caan
Collection: Smell
Image of Simon Doonan
Why the hell wouldn't you want to be one of the fabulous people, the life enhancers, who look interesting and smell luscious and who dare to be gorgeously more fascinating than their neighbors?
- Simon Doonan
Collection: Smell
Image of Giannina Braschi
I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.
- Giannina Braschi
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Image of Yoshida Kenko
You should never put the new antlers of a deer to your nose and smell them. They have little insects that crawl into the nose and devour the brain.
- Yoshida Kenko
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Image of Adam Carolla
Asking someone in advance not judge you, is like asking someone in advance not to smell you.
- Adam Carolla
Collection: Smell
Image of Alex Jones
We know what totalitarian looks like, we know what oppression looks like, we know what the dumb culture of totalitarianism smells like. This is it! It's happening now, and the future of the world is being decided. So, get out there, make your own sites, take action!
- Alex Jones
Collection: Smell
Image of Marcella Hazan
I need to smell its smells, to hear its sounds, to see food in a pot that simmers, bubbles, sizzles. I enjoy the physical involvement of stirring, turning, poking, mashing, scraping.
- Marcella Hazan
Collection: Smell
Image of J. A. Baker
I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
- J. A. Baker
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Image of Fred MacMurray
How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?
- Fred MacMurray
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Image of Dane Cook
I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.
- Dane Cook
Collection: Smell
Image of Claudius
O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.
- Claudius
Collection: Smell
Image of Joan Robinson
Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.
- Joan Robinson
Collection: Smell
Image of Barbara Stanwyck
The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.
- Barbara Stanwyck
Collection: Smell
Image of Junior Johnson
I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me.
- Junior Johnson
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Image of Dawud Wharnsby Ali
Only when I smell the earth upon my face, will I ever be free, to fly from this place.
- Dawud Wharnsby Ali
Collection: Smell
Image of Rachel Corrie
Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
- Rachel Corrie
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Image of Andrew Dice Clay
If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.
- Andrew Dice Clay
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Image of Rob Pike
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
- Rob Pike
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Image of Donald Sterling
Black tenants smell and attract vermin.
- Donald Sterling
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Image of Ginuwine
Everybody has their own little thing, but I don't do that. But my wife might take care of my nails or something, but I'm always groomed, I'm always, making sure I smell good.
- Ginuwine
Collection: Smell
Image of Mads Mikkelsen
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
Collection: Smell
Image of Dominika Cibulkova
I really like the smell of the tennis balls, the new ones. I don't need to do it, but it's just my habit, what I do on the court when we change for the new tennis balls. I just smell them. Maybe it's for luck. I've been doing it all my life.
- Dominika Cibulkova
Collection: Smell
Image of Robert D. Kaplan
What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that might incriminate?
- Robert D. Kaplan
Collection: Smell
Image of Caitlin Flanagan
To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.
- Caitlin Flanagan
Collection: Smell