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There is nothing like an odor to stir memories. -- William McFee
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. -- Henry David Thoreau
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. -- William Greider
Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. -- William Butler Yeats
Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down. -- Ethel Waters
Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any. -- Jean Rostand
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. -- Christy Mathewson
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. -- Alison Lurie
As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c. -- Thomas Hobbes
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it. -- Patrick SÃ¼skind
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it. -- Patrick SÃ¼skind
Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out. -- Phyllis Diller
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled. -- Eric Hoffer
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils. -- Henry Ward Beecher
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in the evening. -- Charles Darwin
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring - that delicious commingling of the perfume of arbutus, the odor of pines, and the snow - soaked soil just warming into life. -- Neltje Blanchan
Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God! -- Rumi
I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul. -- Moses ibn Ezra
The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind. -- Bodhidharma
My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future. -- Pearl Bailey
Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor. -- James Joyce
Even the most Bush-happy, flag suckling jack-arse knows deep-down inside that something is wrong. America is over and everyone knows it. The New World Order has a dying empire odor and changing the channel ain't going to make this go away. -- Jello Biafra
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection. -- Lewis Thomas
This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques or novelties, instead of being shepherds living with 'the odor of the sheep.' This I ask you: Be shepherds, with the 'odor of the sheep,' make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men. -- Pope Francis
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world. -- Theodore Roethke
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish. -- Richard Selzer
If smart technology can transform 3-D from a crude novelty to a genuine visual enhancement, why shouldn't a sophisticated odor synthesizer follow a similar path? -- Charles Platt
A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever. -- Dorothea Dix
Body odor is the window to the soul. -- David Byrne
The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine! -- Peter Tork
There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed. -- Maureen Howard
Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins. -- Hilary Mantel
Cheap cigars come in handy; they stifle the odor of cheap politicians. -- Ulysses S. Grant
The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor. -- Dwayne Johnson
People not only stinks because of the odor but also because of the character. -- Rashi Bishnoi
When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy. -- Ray Bradbury
Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor. -- Annie Dillard
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. -- Jasper Fforde
Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are. -- Henry Ward Beecher
To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat. -- Zora Neale Hurston
The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever. -- E. B. White
As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled. -- Charles Platt
The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies." -- Wallace Stevens
Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor. -- Homer
Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. -- Thomas Harris
Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor. -- Ellen Goodman
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free. -- William Wetmore Story
Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love. -- William Maxwell
The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them. -- George D. Prentice
There are other people on the Internet. It's awesome. You get all the benefits of 'other people' without the body odor and the eye contact. -- Rainbow Rowell
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
The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place. -- Max Muller
Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world. -- Alexander Crummell
Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves. -- Gene Stratton-Porter
The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future. -- Christina Stead
You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world. -- Kenji Mizoguchi
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 Edward Williams
He first noticed it on the plane ride. There was an odor about her and it was becoming more pronounced with each passing hour. It was like the smell of rotting meat. -- Joseph M. Chiron
Meat is not agreeable to the wise: it has a nauseating odor, it causes a bad reputation, it is food for the carnivorous; I say this, Mahamati, it is not to be eaten. -- Gautama Buddha
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. -- Shannon Hale
The worst thing about the dead rising? (Other than, you know, all the zombies?) The smell. Nothing kills the mood like the odor of three day old road kill and poo... -Katherine Anita Cho(KyCH) -- Shawn Durnin
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the "?pieds de Dieu'"?the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still"?foot odor. -- Michael Pollan
Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one. -- Ann Burton
Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle. -- O. Henry

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