Quotes with smell

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  • Alexander Henry It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
    Alexander Henry
    American painter
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  • Adolf Galland Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bobby Flay Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Boyle Roche Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Erma Bombeck My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • James Shirley Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
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  • Carl Honore Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Juvenal The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Bob Woodward There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Alison Lurie There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
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  • Meister Eckhart Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Robert Byrne Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carlos Santana When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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