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Quotes About Sensory

Here tail moved, in another dimension, as if its tip was catching messages her other organs could not. She sat poised, air-light, looking, hearing, feeling, smelling, breathing, with all of her, fur, whiskers, ears---everything, in delicate vibration.
~ Doris Lessing
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Ow! My brains!
~ Douglas Adams
She felt faintly embarrassed by the sheer profusion of things she had for putting in baths, but she was for some reason incapable of passing any chemist's or herb shop without going in to be seduced by some glass-stoppered bottle of something blue or green or orange or oily that was supposed to restore the natural balance of some vague substance she didn't even know she was supposed to have in her pores.
~ Douglas Adams
I shall sit alone in a darkened room, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything but a little grey old head, and in that little grey old head a peculiar vision of hideous blue and gold dangling things flashing in the light, and the smell of sweat, cat food and death.
~ Douglas Adams
The sweat stood out cold on Ford Prefect's brow, and slid round the electrodes strapped to his temples. These were attached to a battery of electronic equipment—imagery intensifiers, rhythmic modulators, alliterative residulators and simile dumpers—all designed to heighten the experience of the poem and make sure that not a single nuance of the poet's thought was lost.
~ Douglas Adams
His mouth started to speak, but his brain decided it hadn't got anything to say yet and shut it again. His brain then started to contend with the problem of what his eyes told it they were looking at, but in doing so relinquished control of the mouth which promptly fell open again. Once more gathering up the jaw, his brain lost control of his left hand which then wandered around in an aimless fashion.
~ Douglas Adams
Because of the various sensory protuberances with which the robot was festooned, it couldn't maneuver inside the towel, and it just twitched back and forth without being able to turn and face its captor.
~ Douglas Adams
La Guida galattica per gli autostoppisti nomina l'alcol. Dice che la miglior bevanda alcolica che esiste è il Gotto Esplosivo Pangalattico. Dice che quando si beve un Gotto Esplosivo Pangalattico si ha l'impressione che il cervello venga spappolato da una fetta di limone legata intorno a un grosso mattone d'oro.
~ Douglas Adams
Ben yaln?zca kendi Evrenimle ilgili karar veririm,' diye sakince devam etti adam. 'Benim Evrenim gözlerim ve kulaklar?md?r. Bunun d???nda her ÅŸey söylentidir.
~ Douglas Adams
I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day
~ Douglas Coupland
In my ears i hear a noise, and this noise is the sound of the color of the sun.
~ Douglas Coupland
Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies' afternoon tea.
~ Douglas Coupland
My brain is built of paths and slides and ladders and lasers and i have invited all of you to enter its pavilion. my brain, as you enter, will smell of tangerines and brand-new running shoes.
~ Douglas Coupland
the shudder of fear is as sensual as the shudder of pleasure, if not more so.
~ Douglas Preston
The parsley sinking into the butter on a hot day,
~ Agatha Christie
kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
~ Aimee Bender
Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It's the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It's just people being people, the world being the world. Sometimes
~ Ajahn Brahm
But lately tenpura-soba doesn't taste like it used to.
~ Akira Kurosawa
His POV: Angela, naked, FLOATS above us as a deluge of ROSE PETALS falls around her. Her hair fans out around her head GLOWS with a subtle, burnished light.
~ Alan Ball
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
~ Alan Watts
Wind snapped at me, warm and fragrant. The atmosphere was thick with pollen and micro-organisms, goading my body's ancient defences.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.
~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
There's something really magical about trying to see things in new ways that go beyond, in some sense, the biological human experience. Light-field photography, too, goes beyond the human experience because our eyes work like conventional cameras.
~ Ren Ng