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Quotes About Odor

he smoked so much marijuana that his hair smelled like a cupboard crammed with oregano;
~ John Irving
Menos mal que mi bigote filtra parte del hedor. Aun así, mis órganos olfativos están empezando a emitir señales de inquietud.
~ John Kennedy Toole
I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer—and what trees and seasons smelled like—how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich.
~ John Steinbeck
In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.
~ John Williams
Old fishermen never die, they just smell that way.
~ Unknown
Puzzavo di libri e di onestà.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
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
Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die.
~ Karl Pilkington
The place stank like someone had butchered a rotting cow in a Porta Potti. The
~ Unknown
Don't get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven't completely broken 'em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt.
~ Mark Frost
I stink, therefore I think.
~ Mark Leyner
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The University of Ilinois has hired 15 women to smell pig manure all day so that researchers can find out what makes pig manure smell so bad. You know who I feel sorry for? The woman who applied for this job and got turned down.
~ Jay Leno
Just as he loved sweet scents and fragrance in general, so also he was exceedingly sensitive to the slightest unpleasantness of odour, especially in the breath, in himself and in others.
~ Unknown
mattered; he stank up the cabin just by walking inside. "You've brought
~ Mary Connealy
No mystery surrounded his nickname: he was enormous and he was filthy. Pig smelled so bad it confused people. When they encountered his reek, they looked around him for the source, so implausible did it seem that the odor could emanate from a human.
~ Michael Punke
If a body has decomposed on a crime scene there is usually a black stain left on the ground, caused by the body fluids and the insect activity. The odour can also often still be detected and sometimes there are still maggots or their shells left behind.
~ Unknown
Stinking Bishop
~ Mimi Sheraton
The pinball business was dirty, they said; pachinko gave off a strong odor of poverty and criminality
~ Min Jin Lee
Also, the reader will be pleased to know that our hero changed his linen every other day, and in summer, when the weather was very hot, EVERY day, seeing that the very faintest suspicion of an unpleasant odour offended his fastidiousness.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Il quitta la rue Mercière, l'estomac calé, satisfait d'avoir rempli sa mission. Arrivé sur la place des Célestins, à quelques pas de l'hôtel, il lâcha un rot caverneux, libérant u petit nuage de vapeur parfumé à l'oignon qui s'envola dans la fraîcheur de la nuit.
~ Unknown
Where does the evidence that absolves low-frequency electromagnetic radiation come from? From those very same necromancers-scientists!-who conjured up the evil stuff in the first place. Once the tag "unnatural" has been firmly affixed, it is very difficult to shed. The odor of brimstone persists, and the strongest objective evidence cannot dispel it entirely.
~ Unknown
While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.
~ Octave Mirbeau
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
~ P. J. O'Rourke