Noses Quotes - Page 9

• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Sight, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.176, 谷月社

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• It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ambition, Keys, Two

  Isaac Asimov (2002). “It's Been a Good Life”, Pyr Books

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• To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell.

  Isaac Asimov

  Farewell, Ambition, Happy Life

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

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• The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside his skull, controlled from Washington. The liberals see man as a soul freewheeling to the farthest reaches of the universe - but wearing chains from nose to toes when he crosses the street to buy a loaf of bread.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Skulls, Soul

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.176, Penguin

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• Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

  John Wayne

  Art, Mistake, Hate

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• Exposure is exposure, whether it's good or bad. But you know what? You live and you learn, and I know who to trust and who not to trust. I'm in control of what I'm in control of, and that's me coming in here and being productive on the field. And as long as I'm keeping my nose clean and doing the right thing, then I'm OK.

  Terrell Owens

  Long, Fields, You Live And You Learn

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• And since the mind is of a man one part,
  Which in one fixed place remains, like ears,
  And eyes, and every sense which pilots life;
  And just as hand, or eye, or nose, apart,
  Severed from us, can neither feel nor be,
  But in the least of time is left to rot,
  Thus mind alone can never be, without
  The body and the man himself, which seems,
  As 'twere the vessel of the same- or aught
  Whate'er thou'lt feign as yet more closely joined:
  Since body cleaves to mind by surest bonds.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Lucretius, “Book III - Part 03 - The Soul Is Mortal”

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• My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid...and her nose was shot off by French soldiers.

  Emo Philips

  Sexy, Girlfriend, Soldier

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• What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

  Arthur Eddington

  Eye, Men, World

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)”, p.329, Cambridge University Press

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• When I watch my early documentaries, they're very eclectic. They don't follow any particular [pattern]. I would have gotten thrown out of film school because I didn't. I was just putting them together somehow as the spirit moved me, following my nose, thinking I was brilliant.

  Pawel Pawlikowski

  School, Thinking, Together

  "Writer/Director Pawel Pawlikowski Talks IDA, Returning to Poland, His Visual Style, Shooting in Black in White, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I really had the right nose for making the right decisions, in terms of which projects to do and which projects to stay away from. The people that I ended up becoming very close to in my career are the guys who inspire me.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Careers, People, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I, who had had my heart full for hours, took advantage of an early moment of solitude, to cry in it very bitterly. Suddenly a little hairy head thrust itself from behind my pillow into my face, rubbing its ears and nose against me in a responsive agitation, and drying the tears as they came.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Solitude, Tears

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• Just as important as knowing what gift God has given you is knowing which gifts He hasn't give you. Many Christians try for years to function with gifts they never had in the first place, and this doesn't do the Lord's work much good. It's like trying to hear something with your knee or throw a ball with your nose. Knees and noses are better off doing other things.

  C. Wagner

  Christian, Years, Knowing

  C. Peter Wagner (1983). “On the crest of the wave: becoming a world Christian”, Gospel Light Pubns

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• There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.

  Howard Hesseman

  Hands, Enough, Tweak

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• As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of ugly, twisted metal to be displayed in front of or inside government buildings, in the name of 'art' that was obviously never meant to give the public any enjoyment and often represented a thumbing of the artist's nose at the public.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Government, Names

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• Customers are ninjas now. They are stealthily evaluating you right under your nose.

  Jay Baer

  Ninja, Customers

  Jay Baer (2013). “Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype”, p.42, Penguin

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• I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times.... but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is.

  Louise Boyd

  Sleep, Sea, Boots

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• I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

  Andy Roddick

  Grindstone

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• A cat who turns her nose up at bread does not deserve meat.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cat, Meat, Doe

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• I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.

  Michael Burry

  Wall, Thinking, Ideas

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