#smell

I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#reading #sexy #smell #wonderful #love

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory ↗

— Marcel Proust

#memories #nostalgia #smell #nostalgia

I smell heaven, the moment your voice makes its way from my ears to heart, it just happens, everytime. I would be as mad for you as you want me to be. I swear. Maybe, I am not privileged enough to afford the luxury of having you..., but still I would try. I would keep on trying...even if you are indifferent to it, even if my heart forgets to beat... ↗

— Ankur Kumar Shah

#beat #crazy #enough #forgets #happens

Un miros de sărac, un miros de violență, de necesitatea de a parveni. ↗

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

#necessity #poverty #smell #violence #inspirational

Your words smell of corpses. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#smell #words #your

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot. ↗

— Jack Welch

#feel #give #go #got #instill

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#bag #gas #gym #i #johnson

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do. ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#best #big #devil #foreign #hairy

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. ↗

— Eddie Cantor

#flowers #funeral #own #smell #wedding

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women. ↗