Noses famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
-- Adam Carolla -
Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?
-- Aimee Mullins -
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?
-- Alan Cooper -
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
-- Albert Einstein -
Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
-- Alexander Pope -
Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.
-- Alice Cooper -
It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.
-- Allison Williams -
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
-- Amy Tan -
I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
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 -
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
-- Angela Thirkell -
When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
-- Anna Kendrick -
I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.
-- Anne Lamott -
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 -
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 -
Even though I always knew I had a good nose for fragrances, the process of creating my own, 'Alive,' turned out to be a great learning experience for me. And the name explains my reason behind it. Smelling good makes you feel alive.
-- Arjun Rampal -
Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
-- Arthur Miller -
I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.
-- Arthur Smith -
Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.
-- Barbara Holland -
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
-- Barbra Streisand -
I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
-- Barry Manilow -
I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
-- Barry Williams -
I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
-- Bennett Cerf -
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
-- Bernard Levin -
Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.
-- Bert Blyleven -
I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?
-- Bette Greene -
In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.
-- Bill Harley -
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.
-- Blake Edwards -
I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.
-- Bobby Vee -
If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.
-- Bootsy Collins -
I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.
-- Broderick Crawford -
You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.
-- Busy Philipps -
They're like lips, they're like noses, they're like eyeballs, you should be able to have them out all the time if you want. Nipples are beautiful things, don't hide them.
-- Cara Delevingne -
But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
-- Carol Burnett -
Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
-- Celine Dion -
I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.
-- Chandra Wilson -
If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
A beep on the nose is a sign of great affection
-- Charles M. Schulz -
This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.
-- Chelsea Peretti -
It's my body and if I want to do it like Michael Jackson, I will. My nose bothered me for a long time. Now it's smaller and I'm happy. If I wanna put my ***** on my back, they're mine!
-- Cher -
I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.
-- Chris Colfer -
In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.
-- Chris Farley -
The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Oh, I am getting married," Raisa said sleepily. "You promised me that if I agreed to marry you, that you would make it happen." She extended her hand, the one with the ring Han had given her, and waved it under his nose. "So. It's time to pay up.
-- Cinda Williams Chima -
There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."
-- Conor McGregor -
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
-- Cyrano de Bergerac -
This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.
-- Cyrano de Bergerac -
ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
-- Dakota Fanning -
A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
-- Damian Lewis -
Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.
-- David Boaz -
People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.
-- David Brooks -
I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.
-- David James Elliott -
When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.
-- Diana Wynne Jones -
People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose.
-- Donna Barr -
I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
-- Dudley Moore -
A great nose may be an index Of a great soul
-- Edmond Rostand -
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
-- Edmond Rostand -
Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
-- Eli Attie -
The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.
-- Ella Leya -
I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
-- Erica Jong -
You're no better than Sharpclaw and Sparrowpelt. They look down their noses at us because we stay loyal to our housefolk as well as our Clan. I thought you were different, Leafstar, but I was wrong
-- Erin Hunter -
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
-- Eugene Ionesco -
You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.
-- Eugene McCarthy -
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
-- Fergus Henderson -
Nose, nose, jolly red nose,And who gave thee that jolly red nose?Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;And they gave me this jolly red nose.
-- Francis Beaumont -
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose
-- Fred Allen -
And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.
-- Fred Astaire -
Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.
-- Frederick Hertz -
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 -
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Floote, what is going on? Do they think I am contagious? Should I assure them I was born with a nose this size?
-- Gail Carriger -
Everybody knows that orthopedic science provides beautiful false noses for people who have lost their noses naturally or as a result of an operation.
-- Gaston Leroux -
Blood spurted from his nose. Okay, I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing.
-- Gena Showalter -
Ava said her hand accidentally slipped and made contact with her guy's nose. I said Repeatedly? And she said, 'Uh, yeah. I'm really clumsy.
-- Gena Showalter -
In a better world, I can do anything. I'll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me.
-- Gene Roddenberry -
Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.
-- George Eliot -
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
-- George Gissing -
No Angie, it's instant. Like when someone trips in the cafeteria and you're laughing so hard milk comes out of your nose, the guy next to you is laughing so hard he accidentally farts. BOOM! Friends for life!
-- George Lopez -
I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.
-- Gloria E. Anzaldúa -
$5,000 means nothing to me! I did about $5,000 worth of damage to that nose of his!!
-- Greg Valentine -
Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
-- H. G. Wells -
This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.
-- Harry Carpenter -
I had a nightmare that I slept without my nose tape on thank God it wasn't true!
-- Heidi Montag -
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
-- Heinrich Heine -
I like poking my nose into other people's lives.
-- Helen Garner -
I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.
-- Helen Mirren
