#perfume

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#flowers #give #individually #like #little

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#business #crazy #dead #desperation #drive

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression? ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#amendment #companies #constitutionally #days #expression

I’m not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#perfume #saturday #life

Where hast thou wandered. gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? ↗

— William C. Bryant

#dost #find #gale #gentle #hast

Wrap fish fillets, sliced veggies, and other quick-cooking items inside foil packets with bundles of fresh herbs and throw them directly on the grill; the steam will release the herb's perfume and flavor anything contained inside the pouch. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#contained #directly #fish #flavor #foil

Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#general #give #happy #i #if i could

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors