A very ancient and fish-like smell.
William Shakespeare
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
Fish and visitors smell in three days.
Benjamin Franklin
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
John Updike
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller
The revolution of electronics hasn't taken away the good smell of books. It's really hopeful to see.
Robin Wright
Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
Barbara Bush
The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
Jennifer Aniston
You get nothing out of helping these people. Your oil is not going to be any cheaper. Your shoes are still going to smell the same, and your sitcoms are going to be just as stupid.
Brian Steidle
There is a risk that as investors wake up and smell the coffee, the market will suffer gradual selling pressures.
David Longmuir
There is the constant smell of tar, oil continues to flow freely in small quantities in the drains and if you are asthmatic then you would have real problems.
Anne Jones
We understand that, on a daily basis, we must train ourselves. This industry changes every day and if you stop and smell the roses, somebody's going to pass you by. Every day is a learning process because our customers are counting on us to keep up ....
Justin Ramsey
Now slow cooking is coming back, all these chefs are talking about an infusion of flavor and braises and everything, and that's what Crock-Pot is all about. You get home from work and dinner's ready, and the smell of it in the house (is fantastic).
Mona Dolgov
It's such a devastating disease, ... When they walk into a room you can smell them. It's so embarrassing; it affects their social life, their business, even their love lives.
Marvin Cohen
We don't smell too good right now, but we're coming back, and we're coming back strong. We've got a shell. We've got a tremendous spirit, and we're going to come back bigger and better than ever.
Bill Holmes
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
Jean Paul Richter
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
The firefighters said it was the best-smelling fire they'd every smelled.
Brent Roose
We are very grateful for her assistance and appreciate her help. Our dogs look and smell great and seem much happier with their 'new do.' Happy and great-smelling dogs have a higher potential of being adopted. This, in turn, makes our shelter staff happy. It is a win-win situation for everyone.
Mary Meyer
I thought it was the garbage that was smelling like that. I didn't know it was a body out there in the car.
Cynthia Williams
You could smell the smell of death in there, ... I personally saw three dead bodies in the ER (emergency room). But we didn't get to see the whole hospital, and I was wondering how many people were in those other rooms.
Manuel Gonzales
It's quite a simple system. You can't tell other than the smell that you're burning vegetable oil.
Doug Kujawa
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard
Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.
Jeff Melvoin
It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.
Adam Scott
It's amazing how one plant can make a home smell like spring.
Matt Maxwell
We're under a burn ban. Everything is so dry. And even if you have just a small fire, everyone has their windows open with the power out. The smoke comes in and you smell up everything.
Mark Mitchell
I have to catch up with (Cassie) now. I definitely smell it coming up and hope I can get it.
Cassie Hahl
I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.
Robert Duvall
It's such a strong smell, they think it's a gourmet meal.
Sharon Henderson
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.
Rachel Carson
Most people don't do this. We think the fish can smell the bait better with the shell off.
Vincent Lester
Wilshire Boulevard, ... It has no smell to it.
Jean Renoir
When we have the Duval County Fair, they bring a lot of livestock into the city. That falls into a nuisance because it is affecting the public health, because the smell is so bad.
Andrea Salinas
Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
Uma Thurman
Just breathe that New York air, would you?!! Doesn't this place just smell like baseball?
T. Tommy Sterling
He looked around, he looked ahead and he could almost see the opening at that point he could almost smell the barn and I noticed his stroke picked up and he got past that one moment that all endurance athletes have to go through. He put his head down, he tucked his chin and did it.
Patrick Murray
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
Penn Jillette
Even though there are controls placed on the processing, the smell that will come out from the new plant would be overpowering.
James Brennan
When I was there about 10 days ago with some people from the port, two of them immediately threw up when we opened the door. You cannot imagine the smell.
Mark Blanchard
They have a good sense of smell, so they can find their food pretty readily.
Jessica Antalek
You can also have oil leaking out of your bottom that was part of your stool, so it's sort of brown-colored and foul-smelling.
Carla Wolper
We were in bed and we heard someone's fire alarm go off, started smelling smoke and looked out the window, everyone was outside, so we just rushed out and saw everything was on fire.
Rebecca Miller
When you hold it up, you can see right through it. It doesn't smell because it doesn't retain water.
Collin Ashton
We understand that the smell is one thing this neighborhood is going to have to endure.
John Lyons
We (the board) really do want these issues resolved and now. As far as the wind, start folding down much earlier in winds. Clean-up all the nearby farms, the road corridors, and the smell. We expect action on these issues now.
Bill Flott
The fish flicks round to the corresponding side in response to the signal, as if it has caught a whiff of an interesting smell - the stronger the signal, the more sharply it turns.
New Scientist
The oil is leaking out of the oil filter directly onto the exhaust pipe and that's probably what makes the smell inside the cab that we're smelling.
Paul Marone
I walked out of Rite Aid the other night and the smell almost took my breath away.
Janet Baker
I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you're alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment's redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.
Waiter Rant
Swiss bank accounts. If O'Neill is waking up and smelling the coffee, things must be really bad.
David Hendler
The coolest thing is when you come to a race ... when you come and see it live and you're there and you get the sound and you get the feel and then the smell.
Kurt Busch
We get used to (the smell) working here, but when we come in Sunday for Mass, it does carry over a little bit. After a few days, it goes away.
Rita Carlson
You walk through some of the passes and the smell overwhelms you.
Kathy Billings
If I don't brush my teeth after I eat, I'll get them all dirty and my breath will smell bad.
James Mercado
The whole valley is smelling awfully. People were hungry and panicking.
Irfan Ahmed
My mom used to say, 'Give me my flowers while I can smell them,' and I got the same feeling when I found out how those players felt. It was as if they gave me my flowers.
Harry Carson
The smell of barbecue, the sound of water, the ambiance of lighting, the sun going down ? an outdoor room is an atmosphere that is very pleasant.
Kurt Conner
It's like: never relax, never take that breath, never stop to get that drink of water. You know you can always smell roses when you're running with them in your hand.
Garth Brooks
Oh, that's a new smell.
Jerry Anderson
We believe Mr. Campbell is simply ready to take some time out to smell the roses before accepting any new challenges.
David Newman
It will stop people from buying cigarettes. A lot of people can't stand the smell of smoke. Some are allergic and don't know it. It gets in your clothes.
Jessica Williams
I am perplexed. The Church is an organization that exists to spread the word of God and levying a duty on those words, putting a smell of money on it, seems to me to be a very negative thing.
Vittorio Messori
What is it dogs are smelling, and can chemical analysis match the dogs in terms of specificity and sensitivity? Then the pathway will likely lead to an ?electronic nose.
Michael Mcculloch
I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.
Andrea Corr
All CP hotels smell the same.
Atom Egoyan
You can't go anywhere but up or down. The constant smell of must made me sick.
Michele Morson
You know how they say stop and smell the roses? Well, there is a lot of truth to that.
Dennis Hall
The health department is looking primarily for bacteriological contamination. Oil and gas, you can see or smell.
David Willis
I appreciate the people who came and kicked my door in. People came in off the street and kicked my door because I had no idea it was on fire. I was cooking beans and my son was in the bathroom and he didn't smell no smoke.
Laura Recasner
Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?
Jeff Foxworthy
The guys came out and we meant all business tonight. I think they can start to smell a conference championship.
Gerald Walsh
The only way I can describe this, it was the epicenter. Inside there were National Guard running around, there was feces, people had urinated, soiled the carpet. There were dead bodies. The smell will never leave me.
Hans Buder
Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being.
Antonin Artaud
Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.
William Shatner
When he came out of his doghouse, I saw four or five burned spots on him where his skin was visibly burned, and you could see raw skin. I could smell burned hair.
Larry Rhodes
You got to wake up and smell the coffee, because it's going to hit, and these gas prices are going to go up, and up, and up, and up.
David Norman
The building was evacuated and the plumbers did not find any leaks. We do not know what caused the smell, it could have been a dead animal in the attic. It was not a natural gas leak, so we did not feel we needed to call the volunteer fire department.
John Kirchner
They're like sharks who smell blood.
Bobby Chen
We're smelling blood, too. They lost to Michigan. We're all the same right now.
Anthony Schlegel
We were getting a little stretched. They could smell it, but they couldn't find it.
Ken Erickson
People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it. The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.
Hugh Macleod
He can smell the Schwab Cup, ... and can smell being the leading money winner. And that's where he's headed.
Bob Gilder
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood
Scents smell better today, because of advanced technology. They are more refined, subtle and pleasant than in the past.
Terry Molnar
It's like developing a perfume. We worked with experts in the field and began by smelling different things.
Javier Benito
I smell blood. I'm like a pit bull. Once I taste blood I'm on you ... and I'm about to taste blood.
Torii Hunter
Hopefully the smell will get her moving, and Port Authority police on their regular patrols will spot her.
Paul Lepiane
The smell of burning rubber is always great in the air.
Rusty Smith
It would be like us losing our sense of smell.
Lee Dashiell
One claimant has written to me describing it. They ate nothing. The smell was indescribable. The stench was indescribable. Some drank their own urine because they were in effect dying of thirst.
William Marks
I don't go out with the idea of seeing an elk, bear, mountain lion. If I go out and keep my expectations in check I always see something interesting ... It's a huge country. It's just unimaginably rich with what you can see hear, smell and remember if you open yourself up to the adventure.
Michael Robbins
I love it. Who wouldn't like the smell of chocolate?
Maria Negron
It was like war. I'd never seen anything like it before, a child, a baby, blood everywhere, the smell of burnt skin, of burnt hair.
Michael Hartlich
The mint taste disguises the Oreo completely. It should be more subtle. You can't smell or taste the chocolate.
Kate Jansen
There's nothing worse than a halfway committed position on a pro-life issue, because pro-life voters can smell that a mile away.
Tom Minnery
They smell that fire and go bananas. Some of them can't handle the pressure of that kind of atmosphere. We've had many, many horses people don't see.
Bill Durham
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.
J. R. R. Tolkien
He's had the case since July, and he picks this week to make this decision? The whole thing doesn't add up. Anyone who doesn't smell a rat doesn't have a nose.
Paul Finebaum
What I really like about shooting is meeting the people you get to shoot with and the camaraderie. There's nothing like the smell of gunpowder, and trap shooting is something you can do for the rest of your life.
Paulette Graham
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
Graham Greene
I went outside and that's when the smell hit me.
Curt Bateman
He must not smell of drink or body odor and his 'Ho! Ho! Ho!' must resonate deeply.
James A. Lovell
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
John Irving
We don't exclude people because of the way they look or smell. And that's why people come here.
Ralph Thompson
There was total devastation. You could smell it as soon as you drove up.
Tim Armstrong
Our bodies still exist. We still have needs, strong needs, to see, touch and smell people.
Barry Wellman
Texas comes out smelling like a rose so far.
Bruce Buchanan
After about one hour of rain, the drainage ditch in the front of the house is so full it is halfway up the front yard. The backyard looks like a lake. We are on septic and every time it rains, you cannot use the bathroom facilities, and the smell of septic is very strong.
Jane Hamilton
Tasting, smelling looking ? you use almost all of your senses except for sound. It then becomes a matter of trying to put all of this together on your palate.
Richard Vine
When I get up in the morning, I smell baking grease. When I go out on my lanai, I smell greasy hamburgers. I smell greasy fish. I smell greasy French fries, all day long.
Jack Baldwin
I think it may have started as an electrical fire because I started smelling something in the cockpit.
Commissioner Dwayne Taylor
I'll say right now, I'll tell anybody that the smell of death is one of the most unpleasant odors that a human should ever have to breathe in.
Allen Miller
You get completely put in a different time zone when you hear them. It's like smelling a perfume, you get reminded of a certain kind of situation.
Peter Rauhofer
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
The investigators started complaining that the smell, the mold, the doors became unaligned, the floors were sagging, just the basic deterioration of the building had them concerned.
Greg James
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller
When you're walking through not only do you see those, but you smell them.
Faye Boushley
The enclosed area made the propane smell pretty strong, and until we knew what we were dealing with, we had to close the road to traffic.
Jerry J. Buchanan
BOTANY, n. The science of vegetables - those that are not good to eat, as well as those that are. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill- smelling.
Ambrose Bierce
Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well, and the light is a little too bright.
John Anastos
Goats wouldn't have seen a tiger from an evolutionary point of view for at least 15 generations but they recognize the smell of the predator.
Peter Murray
If we have a three-day weekend, I'll feel pretty fresh, not smelling of chlorine. Basically, though, I have to be in the pool every day.
Forel Davies
The smell is horrible, revolting from all the feces.
Chris Price
Frankly, the Republicans smell victory, and that's what will bring out the money.
Jerry Shuster
You think you smell lime everywhere.
Petra Perry
It doesn't pull all the moisture out and the smell stays in it for years down the road.
Daniel Brown
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
Grace Hansen
The growers have sacrificed smell for longevity.
Lori Glass
It's amazing to me how many people order a couple of bushels, and if that machine is running, they'll order a couple more because of the smell.
Willie Wieck
Standing outside, one could smell death.
Dr. O'dell Owens
She tells us to order from Taco Bell and she sits there and likes to smell and see the food.
Jenn Davis
When a product reaches the point of spoilage, there will be other signs that will be evidenced – for example odor, slime formation and a bulging package – so the product will not smell or look right.
Ann Boeckman
Five-billion dead skin cells and the food you eat determine why you smell the way you smell. If you are walking he's on the track.
Michael Dorsch
How sweet this is. The roses smell so pretty. Oh, so pretty.
Vince Young
I smell a scam here.
Dipankar Mukherjee
Miles before we got there, you could smell the stench of all this rotting from the flood ... even from up in the air, ... I would be surprised if people would be able to move back very soon, just from the level of destruction.
Larry Snyder
That kicked into the equities market. Around 25 percent of bank profits come through bond holdings. If they are losing these capital gains then the banks are hit. People then started selling the yen because I think they started fearing things are not smelling too good here.
Russell Jones
Bring it, smell it, live it, love it, yeah.
Bill Lusher
When people come in and take a breath, it is so captivating. It basically tells people to stop and smell the roses.
Andrea Walker
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
Christina Ricci
You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen
If you walked by the building you could not smell it because of the system.
Officer Ed Galvan
If you walk into an office with pizza, people are going to smell it and you get to the right person, no matter what.
Scott Jackson
Only a small whiff of the smell is left and hopefully that should be the end of any problems we have with that particular stockpile.
Bill Davidson
This seemed so clearly to make sense. I could smell a monster.
Peter Farrell
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.
Sir William Osler
Opium, yes. You can smell it in the evening.
Jafar Shalde
As you can see from the charts, quality-wise, it's pretty consistent with previous years. So no, the movies this year don't smell much worse.
Senh Duong
Once we smell blood, that's when we attack.
Anthony Nelson
You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
Rich Galen
PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is the smell of the several kinds of powder used in preparing it.
Ambrose Bierce
You need to think about the people who are working in that building. The smell and there are people who are allergic to the smell ... because of just what comes with dogs and cats.
David Hood
This group has got the smell of finals and the smell of September in their nostrils.
Mark Williams
My can of deodorant I keep to make the car smell good fell off the seat and rolled under the brake. I mashed the brake but it wouldn't go down.
Dorothy Faye Porchia
The water tastes fine, ... There?s no smell or anything. But I kept wondering. I wonder if it?s OK. I wonder if it?s OK.
Anne Wallace
Just a pass into the flat. The coaches say, 'when you get into the red zone, you have to smell the end zone.' I was able to use my speed to get to the pylon.
Marvin Bembry
I have been here before./ But when or how I cannot tell:/ I know the grass beyond the door,/ The sweet keen smell,/ The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
I smell that all the time. A lot of times you can't go outside cos it stinks so dang bad.
Rita Faughn
They still smell like pigs.
David Ayares
You could definitely smell the alcohol on him. Multiple detectives spoke to him, and his story kept changing.
Gerry Harrington
The tongue is used to smell and touch.
Bernard Yokel
I've always seen those flowery smelling bags in the store. I never thought I'd be so glad that I actually stopped and sniffed them.
Olivia Smith
There's nothing like walking out of the house in the morning and seeing the sky, smelling the world and hearing the birds. Everything here -- the property, the privacy, the quiet, the wildlife -- we love it.
Signe Cann
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
ALLEGIANCE, n. This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed. G.J.
Ambrose Bierce
I'm glad we don't have the smell of meat in our house anymore.
Joe Hartman
You got your regular human waste that's floating by, but the grease, you go home and you take a shower, and you still smell it. It's awful.
Jim Mcdarrah
I never could tell anything, except the smell from the creek.
Bill Wallace
They looked a little rattled. Our girls do a great job of sensing that. It's like they smell blood.
Tim Zasada
You could smell it. There wasn't anybody alive in that building.
Gregg Brown
They were looking all over for where the smell was coming from. A squid had crawled into their boat and passed overnight and started to decay.
Terry Kohl
I've never seen anything like this in my life. The smell was putrid. And when the wind blew, you couldn't escape it.
Steve Barnes
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
Octave Mirbeau
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Diane Ackerman
Don 't hurry. Don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
Walter Hagen
You have to see it, smell it, feel it for yourself.
Tommy Jackson
After a little while I could smell something burning.
John Barrera
There was so much bleach in the motor home that it severely affected the search dogs' ability to smell for a body scent.
Bill Robinson
Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
Paul Newman
We could smell the death and decay but we didn't actually see any (bodies) that first day, ... I think our third day out, everyone started seeing bodies and things like that.
Patrick Clark
Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.
Boyle Roche
If somebody brings them, we'll auction them. We've got a license to sell pigs, too, but we don't. They're too messy and smell too bad.
Curtis Barfield
It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.
Lena Horne
People come to see it live so they can smell the flowers.
Harvey Carey
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir Nabokov
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