Quotes about Sensory
pointed firs coming out against the pink sky- and that white orchard and the old Snow Queen. Isn't the breath of the mint delicious? And that tea rose- why, it's a song and a hope and a prayer all in one.
- LM Montgomery
If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.
- LM Montgomery
I pointed to the canvas where the rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.
- Ernest Hemingway
It was hot, but the town had a cool, fresh, early-morning smell and it was pleasant sitting in the café.
- Ernest Hemingway
Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
What I glory in is the civilized, middle way between stink and asepsis. Give me a little musk, a little intoxicating feminine exhalation, the bouquet of old wine and strawberries, a lavender bag under every pillow and potpourri in the corners of the drawing-room. Readable books, amusing conversation, civilized women, graceful art and dry vintage, music, with a quiet life and reasonable comfort?—that's all I ask for.
- Aldous Huxley
While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little now and then with gusts of emotion.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices called them from without, no fragments of their own thoughts came suddenly from the minds of others.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The feel of her head against his shoulder, of her familiar body, sent a shock of emotion over him. His arms holding her had a tendency to tighten around her.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Minute by minute the sweetness drained down into her out of the willow trees, out of the dark world.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
To perceive emptiness is to perceive raw sensory data without doing what we're naturally inclined to do: build a theory about what is at the heart of the data and then encapsulate that theory in a sense of essence.
- Robert Wright
As I turned the pages, I felt as if there were bees on my fingertips, for I had never felt so alive as when reading.
- Alice Hoffman