quotes about Odor
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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.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor.
-- Ellen Goodman -
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.
-- Gene Stratton-Porter -
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.
-- George Ellwanger -
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The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.
-- George S. Clason -
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
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Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue -
Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory
-- Jean-Claude EllenaSource : Jean-Claude Ellena (2011). “Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent”, p.49, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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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.
-- Kenji Mizoguchi -
There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
-- Maureen Howard -
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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.
-- Patrick Süskind -
The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
-- Peter Tork -
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy.
-- Ray Bradbury -
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians.
-- Ulysses S. Grant -
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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
-- William Greider -
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
-- William McFeeSource : "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Market"), 1921.
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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.
-- Baron Vaughn -
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.
-- Alexander CrummellSource : Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.49
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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.
-- Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles -
We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.
-- George Meany