Sniffing Quotes:

Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

topic: Wind, Nuts, Patterns, Grover, Zoe Nightshade

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

- Eugene Ionesco

topic: Two, Noses, Sniffing

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

- Dave Barry

topic: God, Ice, Stupidity, Drug Addict, Drug Addiction

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

- Lloyd Bridges

source: "Fictional character: Steve McCroskey". "Airplane!", www.imdb.com. 1980.

topic: Glue, Looks, Quitting, Quit Drinking, Tylenol

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

- James Caan

topic: Beauty, Party, Guy, Skin Deep, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Snow, Addiction, Brain, Sniffing, Sniffing Glue

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Rain, America, Snow, Sniffing, Sniffing Glue

Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Lying, Skills, Fire, Forest Fires, Sniffing

Even if you close your eyes, you'll still hear Donald Trump sniffing. Linguists might call [these visuals] paralinguistics, every form of information including facial gestures and facial features. Obviously these things get scrutinized in tremendous detail, so that a cough can be of outsized importance. [But] that's all part of the package.

- Ben Zimmer

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Eye, Details, Gestures, Facial Features, Sniffing

My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Walking Away, Clothes, Wife, Sniffing

Have you been sniffing fairy farts?

- Kim Harrison

topic: Fairy, Fart, Sniffing

I love the stage. I'm always sniffing around to see if there's something I can squidge in quickly.

- Matthew Rhys

topic: Stage, Sniffing

A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest.

- Robert Reed

topic: Clever, Average, Mind, Brilliant Minds, Average Minds

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

- Elton John

source: Song: The Bitch Is Back Elton John Bernie Taupin

topic: Alcohol, Drug, Glue, Sniffing

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Kids, Racism, Police, Iniquity, Black People

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

- Maurice Sendak

source: "Outside Over There". Interview With Emma Brockes, harpers.org. March 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Beauty, Eldest, Sniffing

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

- Richard Gere

topic: Real, Bulls, World, Sniffing

Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.

- Joshua Foer

topic: Kissing, Way, Faces, Sniffing

Life is like a roller coaster. I like the ups and downs. Life is like a roller coaster with many ups and down. The faster the better. I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue.

- Lloyd Bridges

topic: Bad Day, Life Is Like, Glue, Sniffing, Sniffing Glue

I'd always done a lot of sniffing glue as a kid. I was very interested in glue, and then I went to lager and speed, and I drifted into ***** because as a kid growing up everybody told me, 'don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you'.

- Irvine Welsh

topic: Growing Up, Kids, Marijuana, Marijuana Prohibition, Kids Growing Up

It's two o'clock in the morning, they're not going to get any nooky anyway, so this one guy and the guy with the t-shirt guy started sniffing the girls panties.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Girl, Morning, Two, Social Taboos, Sniffing

Why is it that my heart is so touched whenever I meet a dog lost in our noisy streets? Why do I feel such anguished pity when I see one of these creatures coming and going, sniffing everyone, frightened, despairing of even finding its master?

- Emile Zola

topic: Dog, Heart, Pity, Sniffing

To make a start, out of particulars and make them general, rolling up the sum, by defective means Sniffing the trees, just another dog among a lot of dogs.What else is there? And to do?

- William Carlos Williams

source: 1946 Paterson, bk.1, preface.

topic: Dog, Mean, Tree, Rolling Up, Sniffing

I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and comparison, the public display of privates. What is it for? What purposes of reassurance does it serve? The flashing of a badge, look, everyone, all is in order, I belong here. Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women? Some form of unbuttoning, some split-crotch routine, just as casual. A doglike sniffing.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Men, Order, Doe, Sniffing

as an economics professor I am by nature inclined to the view that the truth isn't out there, it's in here - that usually you learn a lot more by thinking really hard about the data than you do by sniffing around for supposedly inside information.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Truth, Thinking, Views, Free Thought, Sniffing

I read that as marijuana legalization becomes more popular, it could affect the jobs of drug-sniffing dogs. Or as those dogs put it, 'Thanks, Bo Obama.'

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Dog, Jobs, Marijuana, Marijuana Legalization, Sniffing

Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.

- Alison Croggon

topic: Glasses, Smell, Old Friends, Sniffing

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go.

- Rick Riordan

topic: Air, Doubt, Goats, Demigods, Coach Hedge

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Dog, Guessing, Language, Sniffing

There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Buddhist, Mean, Skills, Mantras, Picnic Baskets

I said 'Whoa, little hottie, I'm not DeLorean, Gambino or Gotti. I don't deal coke, And furthermore you're making me broke. I'll put you in a rehab and I won't tell your folks.' And what do you know, In 18 months she came home, And I let her back in... And now she's sniffing again.

- Daryl Barnes

topic: Rap, Home, Hip Hop, Sniffing

I come in as an actor, having read through the script a few times, made a couple of character-choices, thinking I'm going to be working on it during rehearsals. It's very different. It takes a while we're always like dogs sniffing each other's asses.

- Jason Graae

source: Source: www.broadwayworld.com

topic: Dog, Couple, Character, Sniffing

Modern theologians are like a pack of dogs who spend most of their time sniffing each other's behinds.

- David Chilton

topic: Dog, Modern, Theologian, Sniffing

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.19, Random House

topic: Blow Job, Sniffing

Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Heart, Gay, Blue, Submerged, Collars

I don't care about the sort of things that will bring in chump change over the next two or three years. I think I'm better than others at sniffing out things that will bear fruit in 10 or 20 years while they're still at the seed stage, and I'm more willing to take the risks that entails.

- Masayoshi Son

topic: Thinking, Years, Two, Chumps, Sniffing

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

- Lawrence Durrell

source: Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.128, Faber & Faber

topic: Dog, Party, Names, Sniffing

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.496, e-artnow

topic: Queens, Real, Divorce, Keyholes, Sniffing

In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.

- John Diamond

topic: Fighting, Medicine, People, Alternative Medicine, Tooth Fairy

In order to feel safer on his private jet, actor John Travolta has purchased a bomb-sniffing dog. Unfortunately for the actor, the dog came six movies too late.

- Tina Fey

topic: Dog, Order, Too Late, Private Jet, Sniffing

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .

- M. F. K. Fisher

topic: Snow, Addiction, Glue, Sniffing

The regime of control tightens inexorably in our schools, many of which now have video cameras, police patrols, chain-link fences, random unannounced locker searches, metal detectors, drug-sniffing dogs, networks of informants, undercover police posing as students, and a comprehensive system of passes so that there is a record of each student's authorized whereabouts at all times. What a perfect preparation for life in a prison or a totalitarian society!

- Charles Eisenstein

topic: Dog, School, Perfect, Informants, Whereabouts

This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Dog, Snakes, Mouths, Sniffing

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

- Edward VII

topic: Drinking, Wine, Talking, Sipping, Sniffing

Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in

- Darren Aronofsky

topic: Documentaries, Fit, Natural, Sniffing

I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

- Roger Waters

source: "Amused to Death" syndicate Radio Premiere, 1992.

topic: Depressing, Skeletons, Work Out, Sniffing

They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

- Little Richard

topic: Complaining, Noses, Littles, Sniffing

Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

- Robert Moss

topic: Hunting, Forever, Stories, Power Of Stories, Retelling

in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing

- e. e. cummings

source: E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Suicide, Spring, Real, Small Hands, Sniffing

I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.

- Meera Syal

source: Meera Syal (1996). “Anita and Me”, Indus

topic: Differences, Mentor, Weapons, Ostracism, Sniffing