(276 quotes found)
“Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. . . . Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.”
William Osler
“[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.”
Paul Murray Kendall
“I'm queen of my own compost heap, and I'm getting used to the smell.”
Ani Difranco
“I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation”
William Shakespeare
“Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being”
Antonin Artaud
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.”
Dorothy Parker
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.”
Helen Keller
“Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
Jean Paul Getty
“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheetah”
Ronald Reagan