Quotes by Smell Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them. John Bunyan smelltruthheaven Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home. John Berger smellclotheshome You smell like crap so I know you don't like soap. John Cena wwesoapsmell The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap. John Burroughs smellnatureflower It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship. John Cheever smelllightfriendship We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual. John Cheever smellprayerspiritual A flower doesn't count the number of bees that come nor does it pump up its smell just when you walk by. Its nature, as is ours, is to expand itself no matter if anyone ever loves us back. John Douillard smellflowernumbers Listen to the air. John Fire Lame Deer smellmeanthinking If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here. John Goodman smellnew-orleansguy All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar. John Harvey Kellogg smellbirdscience Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning. Jodi Picoult burningsmellblood The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves. John Fowles autumnsmelllakes What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells. John Greenleaf Whittier smellairsweet Art is not disposable. If you want it, you have to hold it and smell it and touch it and read the credits and enjoy it and put it on your wall. John Malkovich smellwallart A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work. John Medina smellcolorbrain Praise from an enemy smells of craft. John Milton smellcraftsenemy If I take things slowly today in order to appreciate life better, and if I take time to listen to the messages that life sends me, then I will have less time to do the things I need to do today. Then tomorrow I will have to do everything that much faster and I will be that much more unable to appreciate life. It is dangerous to stop and smell the roses. John S. Hall smellroseorder What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm! John Muir smellvoicesweet One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about it, but there will always be something to analog. It's the smell of the tape and all that visceral, physical stuff. John Vanderslice odditiessmellone-day You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life. John Updike failure-in-lifesmelllife«2324252627282930313233»
