Nose Quotes

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. (Wilfred Owen)

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Woody Allen

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

George Orwell

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

Heinrich Heine

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

Jean Cocteau

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

P. J. O'Rourke

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his [Degas'] art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Mary Cassatt

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.

Blaise Pascal

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.

J. M. W. Turner

There's no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there's always someone with an answer and there's nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you'd be punching morning noon and night. (Frank McCourt)

Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose.

Robert Browning

Nose, nose, jolly red nose, And who gave thee this jolly red nose . . . Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, And they gave me this jolly red nose.

Francis Beaumont

Those who in quarrels intepose Must often wipe a bloody nose.

John Gay

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

Igor Stravinsky

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

Marie Windsor

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

Leo Kottke

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today.

Paul Kane

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

Dakota Fanning

Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their nose. We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes. We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen. Now I wished you would have told me, I wished I could have talked to you. Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean.

Bruce Springsteen

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. (Thomas Fuller)

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Thomas Fuller

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

François Rabelais

The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories-with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe-but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

Ayn Rand

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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