Quotes About Sensory

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

Noise tri­umphs and reigns supreme over the sen­si­bil­ity of men.

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

In a noisy place I can't understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.

Se aferró durante el orgasmo a la humedad del cuerpo de Albertina y sintió que la vulva abierta de la muchacha la succionaba. Después

Isabel se sacó los pantalones y los dejó con sus zapatos. Introdujo su mano derecha entre el calzón y la piel y palpó con una sensualidad apaciguada su vello púbico. Se

The smell of ink is intoxicating to me — others may have wine, but I have poetry.

Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie.

There are some things that don't change much. I find the smell of a dish, or the way a certain spice is crushed, or just a quick look at the way something has been put on a plate, can pull me back to another place and time. I love those memories that seem so far away, yet you can hold them and carry them with you, even forget them, and then, with a single taste or hint or a smell, be chaperoned back to a beautiful moment.

The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys.

the exuberance of the moment drowning out all other sensations but that of music's delicious momentum.

I bussen erfar vi ofta exotiska dofter, från gorgonzola till döda ormar

I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils,And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile.

To ignore what cannot be measured in precise numbers is like counting the stems in a bouquet of flowers while ignoring the indescribable perfume and beauty of each bud.

The air was heavy and still, smelling sweet, like clover, and pungent, like the catnip that made Hemingway go nuts.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

Moreover, virtue is not concerned with the amount of pleasure experienced by the external sense, as this depends on the disposition of the body; what matters is how much the interior appetite is affected by that pleasure.