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Quotes About Nose

When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.
~ John R. Erickson
In the flickering lamplight, they wandered down the rows of soldiers. No two soldiers had the same nose, the same eyes, or the same mouth. "Oh, man. No wonder so many people had to work on this tomb," said Jack.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Taste - as in personal preference, discernment - is subjective. It's emphemeral, shaped by trends and fads. It's one part mouth and nose, two parts ego.
~ Mary Roach
You fucking drunken waste god wiped snot out of his nose and that was you
~ Stephen King
The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.
~ Bob Dylan
I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.
~ David James Elliott
Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I'm the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio's face. Actually, I don't know if I'm the pigeon, or I'm Fabio's face. Depends on the day, I guess.
~ Ryan Gosling
I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
~ Erica Jong
Umm, if I could nose anybody... I guess over there it would be Ricky Gervais. He's a hero of mine. I consider him an idol, I love everything he does. So to be able to place my nose on such a Brit legend, that would be my pick.
~ Joe Gatto
Fliess concluded from his studies that the physiological seat of sexuality lay in the nose, and that there was a twenty-three-day cycle in male sexuality that bore some relation to astronomical movements.
~ Bernard Bailyn
dark, inquisitive eyes and a little pink nose.
~ Betty G. Birney
Respirator, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.
~ bierce ambrose v
The eight years had not been kind to Sheriff Lowell, but then again, he hadn't been Mel Gibson to begin with. He was a mangy mutt of a man with features so extra-long hangdog that he made Nixon look as though he'd gotten a nip and tuck. The end of his nose was bulbous to the nth degree. He kept taking out a much-used hanky, carefully unfolding it, rubbing his nose, carefully refolding it, jamming it deep into his back pocket. Linda
~ Harlan Coben
Relax,' said Gold. 'I know when to tip the butler, and which sleeve to blow my nose on.
~ Simon R. Green
He was some sort of boxing champion, she told me the night she took me out to celebrate my graduation. He was always punching someone in the nose. Macho, I said. No, she said. It was the clarity of expression that appealed to him.
~ Melissa Bank
It is my cape of good hope, and if it isn't I will probably bite your nose off
~ Mervyn Peake
It's Toby Jones playing Alfred Hitchcock, not Alfred Hitchcock. We all felt that his silhouette was crucial, so his nose and lips were crucial as well. We had to build it out a bit to get the silhouette. But, with my nose being so small within the proportion of my face, the first nose was too big. I felt like a nose on parade.
~ Toby Jones
He was tall, and straight, with a lot of very thick, wild, white hair. In his grim brown face the nose curved fiercely, like a bent bow, and the eyes were deep-set and dark.
~ Susan Cooper
Bear, I need your eyes. I need your nose. I need your night-wits and forest-wisdom.
~ Frances Hardinge
If I could have gotten my nose close enough I would have inhaled leaded gasoline until I was retarded.
~ Haven Kimmel
I like to savor the smell of a garden I cannot see. Do you smell it? The pine, and the lavender—oh, yes, very strongly the lavender. The nose is as important as the eyes. Ask any horticulturist." Poirot chuckled. "I think that if you and I were to meet the one who created this garden, I would make the more favorable impression upon him.
~ Sophie Hannah
In this fact, Dave explained, lies the origin of the phrase "nose to the grindstone": a scrupulous miller leans in frequently to smell his grindstone for signs of flour beginning to overheat. (So the saying does not signify hard work so much as attentiveness.)
~ Michael Pollan
I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
~ Vernon Wells
camouflage (rather oddly from camouflet, meaning "to blow smoke up someone's nose," a pastime that appears on the linguistic evidence to be specific to the French)
~ Bill Bryson