Smell Quotes

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

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.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.

Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.