“I like the smell of armpits in the morning. It's like victory.”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
The Osbournes television show
“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”
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“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air—the rather nauseating stench of appeasement.”
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http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108234 On a parliament debate about the Gulf War <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
“While he smells like nectar, you smell like a goat.”
Julian (emperor) (331–363) Roman Emperor, philosopher and writer
As quoted in The Barbarian's Beverage: A History of Beer in Ancient Europe (2005) by Max Nelson, p. 28. In this epigram, Julian mocked the beer of the Germans and Celts as disgusting in comparison with wine.
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Context: Who and from where are you Dionysus?
Since by the true Bacchus,
I do not recognize you; I know only the son of Zeus.
While he smells like nectar, you smell like a goat.
Can it be then that the Celts because of lack of grapes
Made you from cereals? Therefore one should call you
Demetrius, not Dionysus, rather wheat born and Bromus,
Not Bromius.
“The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Absurdity is what I like most in life.”
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
