Noses Quotes - Page 7

• Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

  Bennett Cerf

  Business, Self, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Americans stick their nose where it doesn't belong more than Cyrano de Bergerac giving head.

  Dennis Miller

  Giving, Sticks

  "The Rant Zone". Book by Dennis Miller, 2001.

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• Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.

  Confucius

  Blow, Hands, Bird

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• Any nose may ravage with impunity a rose.

  Robert Browning

  Flower, Rose, May

  'Sordello' (1840) bk. 6, l. 881

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• The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Civilization, Two, Savages

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• Men go into marriage with virtually no expectations whatsoever. Ten years later, the men are delightfully surprised to find out that it's actually kind of nice, and the women have sort of had to take a nose dive from what they thought it was going to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Nice, Men, Years

  "'Eat, Pray, Love' author tackles marriage". Interview with A. Pawlowski, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2010.

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• Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Real, Eye, Joy

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• Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Laundry, Willing

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• No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Vision

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• I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

  Ingrid Bergman

  Girly, Kissing, Tolls

  "Fictional character: Maria". "For Whom the Bell Tolls", www.imdb.com. July 14, 1943.

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• For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

  Allen Tate

  Hard Times, Mind, Horizon

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, World, Clarity

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• I watched all the Academy screeners and I wanted to slit my wrists. Whether they are good or not good, I don't know why you make Foxcatcher? I don't know why you do it. What is it giving anybody except to have Steve Carell put on a rubber nose?

  Rob Cohen

  Giving, Rubber, Wrists

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"

  Linda Ronstadt

  Real, Talking, Needs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I guess I look so straight and normal nobody expects me to pick my nose and fall.

  Chevy Chase

  Fall, Looks, Normal

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert S. Bosco's latest novel?" or "Have you read so and so's history of Peru, which is reviewed in the New York Review of Books and the New York Times and has a buzz about it?" I don't even know what you're talking about. I'm like from another planet. I'm a pygmy from the jungle.

  Mark Helprin

  New York, Book, Talking

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• The music teacher thought I sang like a goat. It was kind of devastating. A few months after that, I participated in a music contest and won. I took my little trophy to school and rubbed it in his nose. I said to him, "What do you say now?"

  Shakira

  Teacher, School, Trophies

  "I Know What I Stand For". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

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• A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

  Tana French

  Girl, Personality, Brain

  Tana French (2010). “Faithful Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 3”, p.136, Hachette UK

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• O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Unseen, Faces

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius (1858). “Shakespere's Werke”, p.28

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• I've died 3 times, I've been shot in the back, stabbed once in my arm, stabbed 2 times in my back, run over by a truck, been poisoned, broke both of my arms, nose (3 times broken), ribs, both legs, but a broken heart hurt me the most.

  Steve Kaufman

  Running, Hurt, Heart

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• [There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but . . . early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knives, Appreciate, Important

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.221, Psychology Press

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• In a perfect world, mothers would remind their daughters each morning of how beautiful their strong noses are, or how special their curly red hair is.

  Bobbi Brown

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.

  William James

  Baby, Eye, Confusion

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.13.

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• Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Reading, Journey

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• I've learnt to realise my brother is my own best friend. He'd always stick his nose in even though I turned around and said "It's none of your business", I know he only wanted to look out for me.

  Andrew Chan

  Brother, Sticks, Looks

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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