Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

Tre Cool

I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump

Ryan Ross

I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good.

W. H. Auden

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

Katherine Heath

(Cleaning septic tanks) is really not that bad. I've smelled much worse.

Octave Mirbeau

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

Judd Hirsch

What's the inside of a shark smell like? I always thought it would smell like chicken.

Knut Hamsun

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored.

Julian Barnes

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.

Umberto Eco

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

Robin Hobb

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Steve Truglia

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike.

Latin Proverb

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping

Leonard Bernstein

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

John Cusack

All the choices we make in our life are pointless. There’s no escaping the inevitable.

Clifford D. Simak

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

Edward Gibbon

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.

Edmond H. Fischer

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.

Cybill Shepherd

I would very much like to go on her talk show. Maybe not a cooking show. She's got all the hot grease and stuff.

Rose Macaulay

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Tyler Florence

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

Truman Capote

Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.

Rex Stout

Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

Will Ferrell

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

Rebecca Wells

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you ...

W. H. Auden

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Rodney Dangerfield

my wifes cooking is so bad the flys fix our screens