Smell Quotes

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

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?

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.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

Keep it simple. Tell the truth. People can smell the truth.

One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn't you? Because you smell lovely.'

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.