Smell Quotes

Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

If men have a smell it's usually an accident.

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.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

People for the most part can smell lies.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

I did the cover of Cigar Aficionado, so I'm supposed to talk about loving cigars. I've smoked them a couple of times. My father used to smoke cigars. I love the idea and the concept, and I love the smell of cigars.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather.

I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.

Your words smell of corpses.

Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Onions and bacon cooking up just makes your kitchen smell so good. In fact, one day I'm going to come up with a room deodorizer that smells like bacon and onions. It's a fabulous smell.

A lot of these girls have a goal in life to find a rich guy. I can smell it from a mile away. They won't catch me! I know what they look like. They come with their little Kelly bag and their Rolex and the Louboutin shoes that are slightly too sexy. Shove off! Do you think I'm going to be the next sucker here?