S Quotes
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“Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.”
Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...
“Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!”
“SMAWW”
“Smeagol won't go, O no precious, not this time,' hissed Gollum. 'He's frightened, and he's very tired, and this hobbit's not nice, not nice at all. Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters, precious, eh, what's taters?'
'Po - ta - toes,' said Sam.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings
“Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?"
"Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.”
Source: The Two Towers
“Smear extremist labels around like ketchup and your country will soon witness bloodshed.”
“Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.”
“Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.”
“Smee! Raise the Ladies!”
“Smee, you are a supreme idjit." "Aye, Cap'n.”
“Smeh je, uopšte, jedna od najosetljivijih pojava na čoveku. Ako mu se niko ne obraduje, i ne dočeka ga srdačno, beži sa lica zemlje.”
Source: Iz prošlosti
“Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.”
“Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste
“Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.”
Source: The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies
“Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.”
“Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.”
Source: Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography
“Smell her neck, bite her ear, touch her hairs and make her giggle; and she won’t forget you ever.”
Source: A moment with God ; Poetry
“Smell is a powerful gateway to the past. A familiar fragrance can whisk us back to moments we thought we had forgotten. The aroma of baking bread may evoke a childhood kitchen. The scent of jasmine might summon a summer evening on a balcony . ... These sensory portals reveal how deeply memories are woven into our bodies.”
“Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.”
“Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.”
“Smell is a word, perfume is literature.”
“Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.”
“Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.”
“Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.”
Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism
“Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a-a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a... it, uh, it has no-no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible. It should be, um, smelly.”
“Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.”
Source: A Natural History of the Senses
“Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.”
“Smell is the sense of memory and desire.”
“Smell is the voice of the soul.”
“Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.”
“Smell shit when one's bragging.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Smell that? You smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
“Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.”
Source: Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
“Smell the scent of fresh earth around you. Feel the flowers, hear the whispers, for they speak to your heart. Life will blossom from these moments, opening a world of beauty, eternal, washing off the dust.”
“Smell the sea and feel the sky.”
“Smell this, Ahm!” He continued with delight, “This resin is from the cedar trees of Lubnan, the Cedars of the Most High! They grow atop sacred peaks, where only the breath of gods is known. Their scent is holy.”
Source: The Travelers: An Ancient Adventure of Gold, Magic and Forgotten Worlds
“Smelled like home. Stink permeates homelessness: the smell of trash, the smell of dirty streets, of fire bins and piss and other people's body odor, the wet dog smell that saturates your clothes and bedding, the smell of rust and dirt and decay.”
Source: Where the Monsters Live
“Smelling the hint of his cologne. Hearing his voice speak her name. It was like reopening a cut you thought already healed and pouring salt directly into it.”
Source: Afraid to Fall
“Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.”
“Smells are surer than sounds or sights
To make your heartstrings crack.”
“Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.”
Source: The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer
“Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.”
“Smells have layers, like sounds have frequencies. Disentangling them is like trying to follow a song in a room full of loud people–you have to learn to tune out the other noises.”
Source: CHIMERAS
“Smells like home.”
Source: Mockingjay
“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”
Source: The God of Small Things
“Smelt her soul
Shy eyes rocked my cradle
Her roman nose like a Duchess
By then her face went away
Imaginations also stuck
Finally moon went away
And I brooded up to skies
Did his eyes met my face?
Yes they did,
With thud of love
Fell on the velour of roses.”
Source: The Shattered She
“Smettetela di sezionare la felicità per vedere se è viva”
Source: Inside The Outsider
“Smettila di tormentarti tanto. Ogni cosa segue comunque il suo corso, e per quanto uno possa fare del suo meglio, a volte è impossibile evitare che qualcuno rimanga ferito. È la vita. Faccio un po' il grillo parlante ma è ora che tu cominci a imparare certi meccanismi della vita. A volte tu ti sforzi troppo di adattare la vita ai tuoi meccanismi. Se non vuoi finire anche tu in una clinica psichiatrica cerca di essere un po' più aperto e di abbandonarti di più alla vita così come viene. Anche una donna debole e imperfetta come me ogni tanto arriva a rendersi conto di quanto meravigliosa sia la vita.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
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