Noses Quotes - Page 4

• Plain as a nose in a man's face.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Faces

  Francois Rabelais (2006). “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Easyread Edition”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

  Stephen King

  Wind, People, Scent

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.262, Anchor

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• Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Luck, Towns

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• Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.

  Steve Irwin

  Jobs, Reason, Yeah

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• Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

  Octavia Butler

  Looks, Fiction, Sticks

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• What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

  Italo Calvino

  Inspiration, Finding The One, Genius

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

  Ted Nugent

  Hippie, World, Busted

  "America Now" with Larry Kudlow and Jim Cramer, www.nationalreview.com. May 17, 2002.

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• To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.

  Wavy Gravy

  People, Focus, Each Day

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• Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

  Lauren Hutton

  Fog, Teeth, Intention

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

  Marie Windsor

  Plastic, Surgery, Prominent

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• Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.

  Kate Winslet

  Sex, Mean, Government

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• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  Laura Dern

  Office, Boxes, Turns

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• I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

  Mike Tyson

  Brain, Trying, Bones

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• I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

  Tracey Ullman

  Doors, Missing, Rubber

  "Q&A: Tracey Ullman" by Devin Gordon, www.newsweek.com. September 19, 2004.

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• Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

  Jesse Ventura

  Fear, Numbers, People

  Jesse Ventura, Dick Russell (2013). “DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government”, p.209, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

  Edith Wharton

  People, Ems, Use

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2113, Delphi Classics

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• I get letters from women, and they say, 'I love your Roman nose.' If I weren't on TV and I walked past that same woman, she'd go, 'Did you see the beak on that guy?'

  Matt Lauer

  Love You, Past, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. May 1994.

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• There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Difficult

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.36, A&C Black

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• A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Inspiration, Men

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

  Ellen Barkin

  Mother, Eye, Son

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• I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Thinking, Adults, Adultery

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• Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Blow, People, Understanding

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• If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

  Stan Laurel

  Faces, Mines, Fellas

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happiness, Health, Doctors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

  Little Richard

  Complaining, Littles, Stuff

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