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We launched because of 9/11, noHo and all of downtown were so affected by the events of that day, and we wanted to make New York smell good again. It was a highly emotional time, but my idea was to map out every neighborhood and attach each one to a very different scent. – Laurice Rahm	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Money has no smell", ... but smells the profiteers. ("L'argent n'a pas d'odeur", ... - Mais sent les profiteurs.)” – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We also add kusaya, a sun-dried salted horse mackerel that gives off the smell of dog dung. – Hiroki Okada	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Vaping – whether it’s solutions with nicotine, marijuana preparations, or just drug-free solutions – is easy for teens to conceal because the devices can be set to release non-visible vapor and the smell of such vapors is much less odorous than tobacco or marijuana smoking. – Adam Leventhal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I could smell a stench ... the vomit, the urination on deck, the whole ship was filthy. ... Everything was dumped on board including the life jackets. We had to get the ship clean and fumigated and get health checks for the crew and replenish the ship. – Campbell Shipping Dhadwal	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If we can make skin care as easy and delicious as drinking a Red Bull, I thought, people would use it more, people resist putting cream on their skin because they don’t like the greasy feel and smell. Athletes don’t like sunscreen dripping in their eyes. – Bobby Awadalla	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It’s not just about throwing a rutabaga stick at a kid and saying, try this, it’s more about familiarity, what does rutabaga look like, smell like, feel like. – Abbie Nelson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A lot of our customers are people who happen to be walking by, and they come in a little surprised and amused by a shop that just sells pencils, but we also get a lot of word-of-mouth business from journalists, designers, architects and kids coming in after school. I love seeing kids get excited about pencils. Adults remember the smell, the tactile sensation of writing with a freshly sharpened pencil. – Caroline Weaver	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Teenagers want to be attractive to the opposite sex, and they’re horribly concerned about their appearance, if they take a drug that makes them smell bad, it’s no wonder teens don’t comply, and so a lot of kids stop taking the medication. – Paul Grimm	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
When they checked they found it had no driver and blood was dripping out of the vehicle and there was a smell of dead bodies. – Helmut Marban	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Boy, does this smell like bad fish, this does seem kind of coincidental that these new rules, after three years, have been issued in the same time frame as the Hillary Clinton [ email ] situation... and looking forward to [ Benghazi ] hearings in October. – Van Buren	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I mean, we got problems with our federal government firewalls obviously, but to have a private server in your home, I mean, come on, man, that doesn't pass the smell test. – Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I can't go to movies ; I can't even go to indoor venues that have theater seats, when we first came into the courtroom, I had to steel Sandy Phillips against the fear. I can't stand the smell of popcorn. It makes me gag. – Sandy Phillips	Found on CNN 9 years ago
And things don’t smell right, literally. They don’t smell right. There’s a foul odor in the house. – Sheriff Grady Judd	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
His feeling was that it was a juvenile male African lion, he had previously been on a safari and was pretty confident that is what it was. Also, there was a smell of large cat urine, which can be very strong. – Karen Saprapani	Found on CNN 9 years ago
In terms of potential applications, our findings could be used to improve the way we design alarm sounds. The same way a bad smell is added to natural gas to make it easily detectable, adding roughness to alarm sounds may improve and accelerate their processing. – Luc Arnal	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
These findings suggest that the design of alarm signals can be further improved, the same way a bad smell is added to natural gas to make it easily detectable, adding roughness to alarm sounds may improve and accelerate their processing. – David Poeppel	Found on CNN 9 years ago
You can smell it across half of the city. – Simon Cockerell	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It could be muscular problems, with swallowing and chewing, but smell is a big part of taste and children with autism may not perceive smell in the same way as other children. – Paul Wang	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The smell of decomposing bodies was everywhere. – Hyeonseo Lee	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Deaf, blind and disoriented, Tosca was found stumbling around in her cage on Monday, she lost her sense of smell. It was a pathetic sight. Veterinarians, animal protection officials and zoo officials came to a joint decision to put the elderly Tosca out of her misery. – Berlin Zoo on Tuesday	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If you smell it, it’s already a potentially dangerous situation and even ringing a doorbell or making a cell phone call or any small spark in an environment that has gas you can smell can lead to combustion, you get everyone out of the house first, and then you make the phone call after you’re outside your house. – Nathan Phillips	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You can see them, smell them. When they roar the ground shakes. It's like lightning snapping over your head. – John Jackson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am not certain, but it doesn't smell good, there are unmistakeable signs: The Americans were candidates for the 2022 World Cup, and they lost. The English were candidates for the 2018 World Cup. They lost. – Sepp Blatter	Found on CNN 9 years ago

We launched because of 9/11, noHo and all of downtown were so affected by the events of that day, and we wanted to make New York smell good again. It was a highly emotional time, but my idea was to map out every neighborhood and attach each one to a very different scent.

– Laurice Rahm

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Money has no smell", ... but smells the profiteers. ("L'argent n'a pas d'odeur", ... - Mais sent les profiteurs.)”

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

We also add kusaya, a sun-dried salted horse mackerel that gives off the smell of dog dung.

– Hiroki Okada

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Vaping – whether it’s solutions with nicotine, marijuana preparations, or just drug-free solutions – is easy for teens to conceal because the devices can be set to release non-visible vapor and the smell of such vapors is much less odorous than tobacco or marijuana smoking.

– Adam Leventhal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I could smell a stench ... the vomit, the urination on deck, the whole ship was filthy. ... Everything was dumped on board including the life jackets. We had to get the ship clean and fumigated and get health checks for the crew and replenish the ship.

– Campbell Shipping Dhadwal

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If we can make skin care as easy and delicious as drinking a Red Bull, I thought, people would use it more, people resist putting cream on their skin because they don’t like the greasy feel and smell. Athletes don’t like sunscreen dripping in their eyes.

– Bobby Awadalla

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It’s not just about throwing a rutabaga stick at a kid and saying, try this, it’s more about familiarity, what does rutabaga look like, smell like, feel like.

– Abbie Nelson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A lot of our customers are people who happen to be walking by, and they come in a little surprised and amused by a shop that just sells pencils, but we also get a lot of word-of-mouth business from journalists, designers, architects and kids coming in after school. I love seeing kids get excited about pencils. Adults remember the smell, the tactile sensation of writing with a freshly sharpened pencil.

– Caroline Weaver

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Teenagers want to be attractive to the opposite sex, and they’re horribly concerned about their appearance, if they take a drug that makes them smell bad, it’s no wonder teens don’t comply, and so a lot of kids stop taking the medication.

– Paul Grimm

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

When they checked they found it had no driver and blood was dripping out of the vehicle and there was a smell of dead bodies.

– Helmut Marban

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Boy, does this smell like bad fish, this does seem kind of coincidental that these new rules, after three years, have been issued in the same time frame as the Hillary Clinton [ email ] situation... and looking forward to [ Benghazi ] hearings in October.

– Van Buren

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I mean, we got problems with our federal government firewalls obviously, but to have a private server in your home, I mean, come on, man, that doesn't pass the smell test.

– Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I can't go to movies ; I can't even go to indoor venues that have theater seats, when we first came into the courtroom, I had to steel Sandy Phillips against the fear. I can't stand the smell of popcorn. It makes me gag.

– Sandy Phillips

Found on CNN
9 years ago

And things don’t smell right, literally. They don’t smell right. There’s a foul odor in the house.

– Sheriff Grady Judd

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

His feeling was that it was a juvenile male African lion, he had previously been on a safari and was pretty confident that is what it was. Also, there was a smell of large cat urine, which can be very strong.

– Karen Saprapani

Found on CNN
9 years ago

In terms of potential applications, our findings could be used to improve the way we design alarm sounds. The same way a bad smell is added to natural gas to make it easily detectable, adding roughness to alarm sounds may improve and accelerate their processing.

– Luc Arnal

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

These findings suggest that the design of alarm signals can be further improved, the same way a bad smell is added to natural gas to make it easily detectable, adding roughness to alarm sounds may improve and accelerate their processing.

– David Poeppel

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You can smell it across half of the city.

– Simon Cockerell

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It could be muscular problems, with swallowing and chewing, but smell is a big part of taste and children with autism may not perceive smell in the same way as other children.

– Paul Wang

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The smell of decomposing bodies was everywhere.

– Hyeonseo Lee

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Deaf, blind and disoriented, Tosca was found stumbling around in her cage on Monday, she lost her sense of smell. It was a pathetic sight. Veterinarians, animal protection officials and zoo officials came to a joint decision to put the elderly Tosca out of her misery.

– Berlin Zoo on Tuesday

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you smell it, it’s already a potentially dangerous situation and even ringing a doorbell or making a cell phone call or any small spark in an environment that has gas you can smell can lead to combustion, you get everyone out of the house first, and then you make the phone call after you’re outside your house.

– Nathan Phillips

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

You can see them, smell them. When they roar the ground shakes. It's like lightning snapping over your head.

– John Jackson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I am not certain, but it doesn't smell good, there are unmistakeable signs: The Americans were candidates for the 2022 World Cup, and they lost. The English were candidates for the 2018 World Cup. They lost.

– Sepp Blatter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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