Catulle Mendes quotes

“Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.”
-- Catulle Mendes

#Smell Quotes #Doe Quotes #Scent Quotes

“We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.”

“We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”

“Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”

“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

“If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.”

“Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?”

Source : Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston (2016). “The X-Wing Series: Star Wars Legends 10-Book Bundle: Rogue Squadron, Wedge's Gamble, The Krytos Trap, The Bacta War, Wraith Squadron ,Iron Fist, Solo Command, Isard's Revenge, Starfighters of Adumar, Mercy Kill”, p.1629, Del Rey

“Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work”

“In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.”