Odoriferous Quotes & Sayings

A rocker rose like Poseidon and flexed his knuckles. — David Mitchell

Speak for me, Nikeratos. Someone's soul is always listening. Someone's always is, I suppose, if one only knew. Plato never forgot it. — Mary Renault

No matter where he went in the City, there was an odoriferous mix of food and vehicles, like the alchemic concoctions of some mad gourmet mechanic: Kung Pao Saab Turbo, Buick Skylark Carbonara, Sweet-and-Sour Metro Bus, Honda Bolognese with Burning Clutch Sauce. — Christopher Moore

An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion. — James Joyce

Her mind, shaped so long before my own, was for me the equivalent of what had been offered me by the behaviour of the girls of the little gang along the sea-shore. Mme de Guermantes offered me, tamed and subdued by good manners, by respect for intellectual values, the energy and charm of a cruel little girl from one of the noble families around Combray, who from her childhood had ridden horses, sadistically tormented cats, gouged out the eyes of rabbits, and, while remaining a paragon of virtue, might equally well have been, some years back now, and so much did she share his dashing style, the most glamorous mistress of the Prince de Sagan. — Marcel Proust

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

There was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill. — M. Thomas Gammarino

Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded. — Charles Spurgeon

My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me. — Audre Lorde

He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works. — John Owen

Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you." But there are others, such as, "Criticize by creating," "Thou shalt offend Pharisees," and "Catch people doing something right. — Mark Batterson

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. — Christopher Hitchens

I love being in borrowed houses. I love being a bit out of my context. I miss my context dreadfully, but I'm excited by that. — Joan Juliet Buck

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted. — Arlo Guthrie

I do all of marketing and promotion - it's the most exhaustive and rewarding part of the process and I wouldn't trade it for anything. The artist should be the person representing their brand because theyre the best person to do so. — Hoodie Allen

Some of them are okay, but the popular girls like to pick on my sister, and almost all the guys are gross. I don't know why guys are like that. Do you? — Regina Doman