Nasal Quotes

#1. Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

Roman Jakobson

#2. Tennessee Williams choked to death on the plastic cap of a nasal spray.

David Markson

#3. I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.

Jay Baruchel

#4. The bigger they are, the easier it is to fly up their nasal cavity.

Rick Riordan

#5. There might be symphonies of perfume, Mozarts of musk. Novelists might construct nasal narratives, versifiers sonnets of scent. Sculpture would entail subtleties of shape that only fingers trained through hundreds of millions of years of tactile evolution could discriminate.

Richard Fortey

#6. The mustard on the roof of my mouth gave me the feeling that someone was removing my nasal hair with a blowtorch.

Marcel Theroux

#7. Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Dave Barry

#8. I feel that nasal spray is a wondrous medical achievement, because it is supposed to relieve nasal congestion, and by gadfrey, it relieves nasal congestion. What I'm saying is that it actually works, which is something you can say about very few other aspects of the medical establishment.

Dave Barry

#9. Cheese. Cheeeeeese. What a thin, flat, nasal-sounding word for such a luscious, rich, gorgeous thing. Hard. Soft. Ripe. Grainy. Creamy. Often stinky. I'd yet to find a cheese I didn't adore.

Alice Clayton

#10. The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#11. Since I am me, I find it very difficult to judge how fascinating listening to my nasal, heavily-accented drone for two hours would be to somebody who wasn't me.

Alan Moore

#12. Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice."
I smiled back unconvincingly. I snore nice. Not "I opine that your auditory nasal exhalations are most pleasing.

Kim Harrison

#13. Ayo for yayo
Walk around with yayo, all in my nasal
I must have been craze yo

Andre Nickatina

#14. The sounds pouring forth from his nasal passages registered somewhere between grizzly bear and exploding tractor trailer.

Alice Clayton

#15. The voice that answered did not belong to the beautiful woman who'd hired me last time. The voice was male. Nasal, high-pitched, fussy. If a Chihuahua could talk, it would be like that.

Jonathan Maberry

#16. A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

Blaise Cendrars

#17. Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.

William Zinsser

#18. I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my father's clarinets or saxophones, just my harmonica.

Pete Townshend

#19. Now lemme get this straight," she said in a throaty, nasal voice. "You put the lime in the cocanut and drink 'em both up
whoa, long faces. What am I interrupting?

Lauren Kate

#20. I gotta say, babes," he said in a nasal Essex whine, "you're giving me sutcha bedroom look."
I stared down into his face, so close to mine. Babes?

Alexis Hall

#21. You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have,

Denzel Washington

#22. Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

Cate Marvin

#23. When loved ones depart forever, all that remains is the light from their eyes trapped in their jewelry. Beyond memory, it is the only souvenir we ever keep.

Richard Zimler

#24. We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

Dora Russell

#25. I don't know why I go to extremes.

Billy Joel

#26. She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.

Peter Straub

#27. I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

Charles Garfield

#28. He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

Katharine Hepburn

#29. Why not stakeholder action? There's no economic principal that says that management should be responsive to shareholders, in fact you can read in texts of business economics that they could just as well have a system in which the management is responsible to stakeholders.

Noam Chomsky

#30. It is not, as somebody once wrote, the smell of corn bread that calls us back from death; it is the lights and signs of love and friendship.

John Cheever

#31. Words stick, even when we don't want them to.

Carrie Arcos