Although modern humans must now rely on dogs to sniff out drugs and other contraband at airports, our early ancestors may have been capable of the job themselves.
Quotes about sniff (16 Quotes)
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote There will always be those who sniff that the show is 'feel good'but, oh, it feels good to feel good. And the main reason The Music Man feels so good is that it is gooda great American musical.
I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then.
If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.
They paid a big price. It has a sniff of a panic buy. New Zealand is a small market and I can't see what they can do to grow the business.
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
He's been great at camp. He definitely has a great set of hands and he can sniff out the net, that's for sure. Hopefully he's going to be a player who can step in and show some scoring and pick up a role on this team.
Because a given era lacked a given body of information, we feel that its whole consciousness was naive. We can, therefore, sniff at, say, twelfth-century imagery of evil along with twelfth-century notions as to the shape of the solar system. The idea is that, having come upon information that supervenes the medieval cosmology, we can thereby dismiss all medieval notions as merely medieval.
You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that.
It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
Purists can sniff that the new Hi-Fi speaker system is a glorified boom box, but for Microsoft and others the message is clear Jobs Co. are coming on strong.
You have to sniff out joy keep your nose to the joy-trail.
LITTLE LOST PUP He was lost-not a shade of doubt of that For he never barked at a slinking cat, But stood in the square where the wind blew raw With a drooping ear and a trembling paw And a mournful look in his pleading eye And a plaintive sniff at the.
I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.