Noses Quotes - Page 35

• A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Light, Might, Return

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• Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

  Tom Bergeron

  Forget, Failing, Breathe

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• when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads.

  Helen Eustis

  Mother, Children, Ideas

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• One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic.

  Robert Dallek

  Father, Writing, Character

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• When I breathe down my nose to say how do you do to a horse, it can hear that breath at anything up to twenty yards, for horses have the most acute sense of hearing.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Horse, Twenties, Yards

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• Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

  Josephine Tey

  Thumbs, Want, Able

  JOSEPHINE TEY (1949). “BRAT FARRAR”

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• The child--a skilled actor with a hundred masks: a different one for his mother, father, grandmother or grandfather, for a stern or lenient teacher, for the cook or maid, for his own friends, for the rich and poor. Naive and cunning, humble and haughty, gentle and vengeful, well behaved and willful, he disguises himself so well that he can lead us by the nose.

  Janusz Korczak

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.

  Lori Borgman

  Family, Dog, Doors

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• A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.

  George Jones

  Artist, Jeans, Littles

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

  Anthony Bourdain

  World, Gestures, Way

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• Most of today's film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line and whose uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breasts, teeth, eyelashes, and hair.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Hair, Eyelashes, Age

  Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”

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• Your eyes are windows to your dreams; Your ears are windows to your mind; You nose is the door to your heart - you can win over any man with just your smell.

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Dream, Eye, Heart

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.

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• Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Eye, Curves

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• Sexy, to me, is the way you carry what you have. I have a big nose, but I rock it.

  Justin Timberlake

  Sexy, Rocks, Way

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• I can play the harmonica with my nose.

  Chord Overstreet

  Play, Harmonicas, I Can

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• For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Eye, Fake, Red

  "Sherri Shepherd-Lamar Sally Wedding: 10 Things You Don’t Know" by Katherine Bindley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.

  George Herbert

  Mother, Wipe

  George Herbert, Izaak Walton (1848). “The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...”, p.288, London, Pickering

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• They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

  Lenny Henry

  People, Black, Red

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• Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.

  Steven Tyler

  Aerosmith, Boogers, Grindstone

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• There's a rumor that President George Bush had a nose job, that he had some kind of plastic surgery, that he actually had a nose job. If this is true, that's the first new job he's created since taking office.

  David Letterman

  Jobs, Office, Rumor

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• Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

  Amy Poehler

  Cake, Relax, Apes

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.179, Pan Macmillan

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• The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Next, Lips, Ornaments

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• whatever San Francisco is or is not, it is never dull. Life there is in a perpetual ferment. It is as though the city kettle had been set on the stove to boil half a century ago and had never been taken off. The steam is pouring out of the nose. The cover is dancing up and down. The very kettle is rocking and jumping. But by some miracle the destructive explosion never happens.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Taken, California, San Francisco

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• Do people really think that about my nose? I spent my whole life hating it, so its amusing that people like it!

  Richard Armitage

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses.

  John Lennon

  Music, Writing, Used

  "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2004.

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