Smell Quotes

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

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

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don't feel that.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

I love to smell like roses, literally all day!

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.