Nostril Quotes

#1. In fact, I noticed everything about Alex. Like that his left nostril was slightly larger than his right nostril. And the way he ate a Kit Kat bar: chocolate first and then the layers of wafer separately. I could pick his one sneeze in a room full of sneezers.

Autumn Doughton

#2. He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

Hippocrates

#4. Callers who even more unconsciously blemish-scanned or nostril-explored looked up to find horrified expressions on the video-faces at the other end. All of which resulted in videophonic stress.

David Foster Wallace

#5. I was lying on my bed, contemplating Mason's death when Amy strolled into our cabin.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Wondering what would cause more damage, a paint-brush in the eye or a putty knife shoved up someone's nostril," I answered, scowling at the ceiling.

Tiffany King

#6. I should wonder what courage - which is the virtue they most value - has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

Veronica Roth

#7. I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#8. So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

John Milton

#9. A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look, and until you get something done about it, you will never, ever work.'

Marcia Gay Harden

#10. The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

George Eliot

#11. a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. Come quickly with me.
Inhale the divine that swoops
from nostril to blunted throat
then sneaks past guarded doors
into the hallway of your heart
where the lamplight grows.

Merle Nudelman

#13. ...his open nostril quivered with intent.

Bram Stoker

#14. The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

C.S. Lewis

#15. The specialist looks inside your nose and announces: 'Well, all right, I'll take care of your right nostril, but I really don't handle left nostrils;

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. Razo wasn't good at anything except maybe cramming two cherries up one nostril.

Shannon Hale

#17. That's enough!" Holly scrambled out of her seat, too. "My three-year-old behaves better than all of you." She looked down at LJ, who was trying to stuff a fry up his nostril. "And that's not saying a whole lot.

Nicole Williams

#18. Pomposity and indignation grow in old age, like nostril hairs and earlobes.

Stephen Fry

#19. I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

Gerald Seymour

#20. Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

Sloane Crosley

#21. Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.

Salman Rushdie

#22. Did I arch my back when his gazes finally made it to my chest? Of course I did. And was rewarded with a nostril flare, the equivalent of a facial boner.

Alice Clayton

#23. Razo knew he was best at nothing, except maybe cramming two cherries into a single nostril.

Shannon Hale

#24. As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by the action of external objects, but in appearance; to the Sight, Light and Color; to the Ear, Sound; to the Nostril, Odor, &c.

Thomas Hobbes

#25. He was the kind of guy who won the stupid tricks contest at local bars by inhaling a silver chain up his nostril and pulling it out his mouth.

Jennifer Coburn

#26. Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath is shallow. Perhaps you breathed in through the left nostril. Perhaps you breathed in through the right nostril. It makes no difference.

S. N. Goenka

#27. Doesn't know much, but leads the league in nostril hair.

Josh Billings

#28. Karma is a bitch.

V.K. Springs

#29. Getting that first knockout against Joe Riggs [in 2006] meant a lot to me then and still does today.

Diego Sanchez

#30. Josh: So, Toby, it's election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it?
Toby: God bless America.

Aaron Sorkin

#31. Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America's saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party's most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.

Alex Pareene

#32. She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "

pg 346

Veronica Roth

#33. We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#34. I remember the sights and sounds and smells of home because the memory of home is the thing that never leaves us.

Wyatt Cooper

#35. I have no detectable hair style.

David Spade