Quotes of: Odor Keyword

If people understood that doctors weren't divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.

Richard Selzer

I sent a message silently, through body language and body odor.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The Deadwood dirt they painted on us with powder. The air always smelled of livestock and something burning, gave a sooty, dense feel to the air. It was a mixture of odors.

Robin Weigert

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

The rancid odor mixed with the dust, death, and confusion as they awaited those who could clean up the mess and make death official.

G.G. Collins

Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt: There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity!

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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

An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.

The Leopard Mask

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy." "Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

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.

Tagged: The Apocalypse

My nostrils smell, but not to you. Oh, they have no odor, unless you count the scent of nostalgia, which is what they always smell like.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Ulysses Everett McGill: I like the smell of my hair treatment; the pleasing odor is half the point.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

You know how when someone is tall, people will compare them to a string bean? She, my friend, was like asparagus, but without the subsequent odor.

Dolph and Erasmus

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.

The Song of the Cardinal

A turd placed in the snow will become hard and significantly less odorous than its warm weather counterpart. This doesn’t mean that it has ceased to be a turd.

Tales of the Zodiac - The Goat's Tale

[His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

Wonder Boys

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.

The Silence of the Lambs

The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.

Luther Burbank

Gonzo: It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve and Scrooge was conscious of a thousand odors, each one connected with a thousand thoughts and hopes and joys and cares long, long forgotten.

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Back inside, I’m shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their homegrown produce, dried herbs. The Oneida Community was an upstate tourist attraction right from the start, second, Valesky says, to Niagara Falls. I’m...

Assassination Vacation

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

The Given Day