Noses Quotes - Page 24

• We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.

  Brad Park

  Jobs, Hockey, Nhl

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• Now in war we are confronted with conditions which are strange.
  If we accept them we will never win.
  Since being realistic, as in mundane combats fistic,
  We will get a bloody nose and that's a sin.

  George S. Patton

  War, Army, Winning

  "Absolute War". Poem by George S. Patton, Stanza 1. "The Patton Papers 1940-1945". Book edited by Martin Blumenson, p. 492, 1996.

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• And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nice, Rain, Love You

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8237, Delphi Classics

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• You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: "No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway."

  Tina Fey

  Mother, Transition, Subway

  "Tina Fey Reveals All (And Then Some) In 'Bossypants'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 13, 2011.

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• You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over.

  Lewis Black

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sarcastic, Character, Wrinkles

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.145, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a kid with bronchitis and pick his nose and eat it on a regular basis, yet won't sit next to his sister because of 'Girl Germs'.

  Kathy Lette

  Girl, Dog, Morning

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• The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you're ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Differences, Handsome

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• These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Eye, Fighting

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• Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

  Sam Manekshaw

  Badass, Thinking, Long

  "Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw" by Vinod Saighal, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

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• When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Sunny Weather, Ledges

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1669, Delphi Classics

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• If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Cat, Going Away, Done

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• Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, Vision, Given

  Roger A. Caras (1990). “Cat is Watching”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Men, Way

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• So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Successful, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.478

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• Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Swings, Ideas, Liberty

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• I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Success, Knowledge, Science

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• What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.

  Lord Byron

  Science, Discovery, Opposites

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.28, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drawing, Hands, Play

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, People, Smoking

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.198, Canongate Books

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• I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Beer, Thinking, Meditation

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• These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

  George Eliot

  Stupid, Compassion, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

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• When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped the baby from her blankets. She was average size, with long thin fingers and a random assortment of toes. Her eyes were close set, and she had her father's hooked nose. It looked better on him.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Sleep, Alcohol

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment. A library is one of those places. In a library you can learn by following your own nose, which is very different from someone telling you what you should learn. Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I've seen it happen. It happened to me.

  Bill Harley

  Children, Fall, Kids

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