Odor Quotes

Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale.

We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

Body odor is the window to the soul.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.

Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact.

The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the ‘pieds de Dieu’—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.

Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something.

Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.