Top 543 Smells Quotes & Sayings

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.

I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!

I'm very sensitive to smells.

I like the Open Window Fresh WetJet scent; it smells pretty good as you are using it. I like fresh and clean smells, so it makes sense that I would also be partnered with Swiffer because that is what they are all about: making your house all fresh and clean.

I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in your heart.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

Hay smells different to lovers and horses.

The deal looks bad and smells worse.

Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

I'm inspired by deep, earthy smells, especially of the outdoors.

The woman who loves always smells good.

What smells good in the store may stink in the stewpot.

I think a woman's opinion on what her man smells like is very important, so I like to let a man know what I think about how he smells. I think going by personality is hard when trying to find a fragrance for someone else. It should come down to what smells good to you. I would tell my man, "Hey babe, I bought this new cologne for you," in the nicest possible way. But a man has to smell good. And not too much - just a little, that's all you need.

I just love good smells.

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been smoking the night before.

Oh my God. I thought I was going to have an aneurysm right there in line. Your hair smells really good? Your hair smells really good? Who did he think he was? James Bond? You don't tell someone their hair smells good. Not in a mall.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively.

Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.

(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.

Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.

I'm not a strict vegetarian. I do eat beef and pork. And chicken. But not fish 'cause that's disgusting! How do you know when fish goes bad? It smells like fish either way! 'Hey this smells like a dumpster, lets eat it!'

We know what hair smells like when a hot comb hits it. That's a cultural thing. We know what that smells like on Sunday mornings, usually church-related or something. In my house, it was getting ready for church and your sister was getting her hair fried.

My husband always smells good to me.

Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.

Death smells like birthday cake.

Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

I've never had beer. It smells so disgusting.

It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.

Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat.

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]

I don't like bad smells.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

...Life is nothing but trading smells.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

Weird Al was something that kids would listen to. It's funny, super funny, smart. It's just kind of jokey. I remember hearing 'Smells Like Nirvana' before hearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' That's how it really worked. I think it's just such a cool thing how he introduced us to so many cool bands. Even Queen - 'Another One Rides the Bus.'

My sweat smells like peanut-butter.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone.

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed.

No coffee is ever quite as good as it smells.