Richard Axel Quotes

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

I'm very sensitive to smells.

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

What's that smell?" I froze. What? Did I really smell so distasteful he had only to lean in my direction to catch a putrid whiff of me? I stayed the urge to break his freaking nose for pointing out my stinkiness. He sniffed again. "I can't place it." "How bad is it?" I asked, my cheeks heating. "It's good. Some kind of flower." My first thought: Hurray! I don't stink. My second: Ohmygod!

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

Elephants are very sensitive to smell and they tend to recognise us by our body odour.

When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.

Scent is very important to me but it is the case that my colleagues think it is hilarious that I simply cannot smell, ever, the smell of cannabis.

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

He doesn't bring many girls round unless they're part of a job - but also 'cause his smell can sometimes kill kittens.

Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?