Inspirational Scents Quotes & Sayings

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know. — Steve Earle

I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable. — Michelle N. Onuorah

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to. — Rob Lowe

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow porcession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it. In his head, he could roam anywhere, and he found that his mind was quick and clear, his imagination unfettered and supple. He could stay with a thought for hours, turning it about. — Laura Hillenbrand

The number of authors in the Old Testament suggests that it is a community document, almost like a Wikipedia article. — Tripp York

In every single scenario that you step into, in life, it is like stepping into a body of water and you need to stop and really stand there to feel what's going on in that water - the temperature, the direction of the current, the particles in the water that brush up onto your skin, you need to close your eyes and inhale deeply to distinguish the scents that come from it. I have always done this, since I was a small girl, being aware of and feeling every atom that's in there. I'm a Water Bender. I bend the water; the water does not bend me. — C. JoyBell C.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality. — T. S. Eliot

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence. — Salman Rushdie

Warm familiar scents drift softly from the oven,
And imprint forever upon our hearts
That this is home
and that we are loved. — Arlene Stafford-Wilson

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy. — Chauncey Depew

The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination - not vice versa. — Alessandro Volta

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations. — David O. McKay

He allowed himself to imagine for the first time that the rest of his life might not be shaped by the misery of his past. — Julie Orringer

He was one of that numerous and diverse legion of vulgarians, feeble miscreates, half-taught petty tyrants who make a point of instantly latching on to the most fashionable current idea, only to vulgarize it at once, to make an instant caricature of everything they themselves serve, sometimes quite sincerely. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm barely human. I'm more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can "touch" in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings! — C. JoyBell C.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche

But how wonderful when the tale is told,
And the message that is meant for us
Opens like the scents of a mountain flower! — Mazisi Kunene