“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”
Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
The Osbournes television show
“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”
Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
“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.
General sources
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.
“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
“The pillow smells like the sunlight, a precious smell.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.”
Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist
“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist