Noses Quotes - Page 33

• It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Silly, Ignorance, Stupidity

  Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I don't think it is worth explaining how a character's nose or chin looks. It is my feeling that readers will prefer to construct, little by little, their own character—the author will do well to entrust the reader with this part of the work.

  Jose Saramago

  Character, Thinking, Feelings

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• I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Eight, Race

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• Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses. I decided I wasn't going to open an account. Put it the other way round - there was no reason that I should.

  Bertie Ahern

  Hair, Yellow, People

  "Highlights of Bertie Ahern’s Evidence to Mahon Tribunal". www.independent.ie. March 22, 2012.

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• As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.

  Walter Keane

  War, Dirty, Hair

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• Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

  Harold Town

  Strength, Years, Oil

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• The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

  Abe Ajay

  Fashion, Art, Blow

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• My father would sit and design furniture and cabinets - he was a carpenter and cabinet maker - and I would ask for my own piece of paper and pencil. And when I would say, 'What should I draw?' he would push a cartoon under my nose and say, 'Here, draw this.' So the cartoon became a kind of focus of attention.

  Burne Hogarth

  Father, Drawing, Focus

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• I want to be able to twitch my nose like that so I can clean my house! I have four children. I have been praying for that gift, but I haven't gotten it yet.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Children, House, Four

  "The Truth about Witchcraft with Silver RavenWolf". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. November 1, 1997.

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• One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

  Moby

  Simple, Ugh, Conspiracy

  Journal entry at moby.com, January 21, 2003.

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• There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Beautiful, Hands, Soldier

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• The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, "For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody - and make them pay through the nose."

  Andrew Tobias

  Cost, Lines, Radio

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of Italian political life he is ready upon cold request to provide an inquiry brief refined in the most minute details is a nice comfort. But also a bit unsettling. The day I asked him if in that archive, into which no one is allowed to stick their nose, there were a brief with my name on it, Marco changed the subject.

  Indro Montanelli

  Nice, Italian, Names

  Preface to "Il Pollaio delle Libertà" by Marco Travaglio, Vallecchi, 1995.

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• A man once said that the pinnacle of success
  Is when you've finally lost interest
  In money, compliments, and publicity
  A noble enough idea, I suppose
  How on earth he does this, heaven only knows
  I know I need a lot more of all three of those
  Before I ever have the nerve to turn up my nose
  At any money, compliments, and publicity.

  Todd Snider

  Men, Ideas, Heaven

  "Song: 'Money, Compliments, Publicity'". 2009.

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• Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Eye, Russia

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• Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.

  Steve Martin

  Kids, Thinking, Glasses

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• keep a clean nose, watch the plain-clothes.

  Bob Dylan

  Clothes, Watches, Clean

  Song: Subterranean Homesick Blues, Album: Bringing It All Back Home

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• We all understand genetics. You get your eyes from your dad, your mom's nose, there's nothing you can do about that. But your spiritual genetics you can choose, pick, embrace and commit to. That's what I did.

  Chris Gardner

  Mom, Spiritual, Dad

  "Chris Gardner | Survival Guide: extended interview". Interview with William Welsh, washingtontechnology.com. October 19, 2006.

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• It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is a famous journalistic legend about the time a young reporter covered the Johnstown flood of 1889. The kid wrote: God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought. His editor cabled back: Forget flood. Interview God.

  Roger Ebert

  Kids, Editors, Missing

  Roger Ebert (2013). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007”, p.297, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

  Norman Mailer

  Girl, Running, Fishing

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.519, Harvard University Press

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• Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  A. A. Gill

  Reality, Blood, Hands

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• I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Generous Spirit, Years, Long

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• I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.

  Mel Brooks

  Children, Kids, Eye

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• I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.

  Nick Offerman

  Fall, Humility, Thinking

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination makes it almost unavoidable.

  Rachel Hartman

  Believe, Men, Wrinkles

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