Top 100 Quotes About Noses
#1. 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
#2. The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
Katherine Anne Porter
#3. He held her face in his hands and his gaze warmed her sadness. "I don't care how you got here. I'm just happy you were born." He rubbed noses with hers. "Real happy.
Selena Robins
#4. Never put a razor inside your nose - even as a joke.
Jake Johannsen
#5. The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'
Roger Ebert
#6. Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon
#7. Women are using makeup to make their eyes look puffy, their noses look red, and instead of going to the gym, they start their day with a brisk walk of shame.
Peter Sagal
#8. The sad reality is, it's not just the people I go to school with that are doing it. It's their parents too. Their noses are all turned up at me, like because of my diagnosis; I'm an alien to them. I'm not like their son or daughter so that means I'm not worthy of respect.
Melyssa Winchester
#9. Late season fruits.
The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, some, like me, turn their noses up. In silence they mould bits of bread into balls, delighting in their work, then chuck them in God's face.
Claude Cahun
#10. As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.
Walter Keane
#11. We don't need a point, son. We're juvenile, we're dirty, we don't have girls, we have noses full of snot, throats sore as hell, we've got scabs on us, we suffer bouts of acne, we've got no girls ... What more reasons do we need?
Markus Zusak
#12. To be a good sports journalist takes many things, but the main thing it takes is the ability to listen and follow your nose - see something, sense something and follow it.
Steve Bunce
#13. I always have this red nose in my pocket, and if it looks like I'm taking things too seriously, or the person I'm talking to is taking them too seriously, I put the nose on. It doesn't matter what we're doing or talking about, it doesn't matter if we agree or disagree, the nose changes everything.
Bernie Glassman
#14. When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.
James Fenton
#15. If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.
Karl Kraus
#16. The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar's crooked nose.
Ella Leya
#17. I used to complain to myself that life was so boring, that there was too much laundry to do, too many noses to wipe. Now there are not enough noses to wipe.
Nancy E. Turner
#18. Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.
Steven Tyler
#19. The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.
William Shakespeare
#20. Petulia liked animals, especially pigs, because they had wobbly noses. Tiffany quite liked animals too, but no one except other animals liked animals as much as Petulia.
Terry Pratchett
#21. I do not know how to kiss or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?
Ingrid Bergman
#22. Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses ...
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#23. Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.
Taylor Hanson
#24. I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle's Roman nose so aggravated me, during the recital of my misdemeanours, that I should have liked to pull it until he howled.
Charles Dickens
#25. I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.
John Colton
#26. There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.
John Bercow
#27. Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.
Emma McLaughlin
#29. It's a beautiful war, baby." He dipped so close, the tips of our noses brushed but his eyes never left mine. "And I ... just ... won.
Kristen Ashley
#30. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.
Benjamin Franklin
#31. One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?
Moby
#32. Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.
Tommy Farr
#33. Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.
Ernest Hemingway,
#34. Let's go drink our beers and thumb our noses at those who would do us harm.
Hugo Pratt
#35. Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.
Jef Mallett
#36. I had a fistfight with every kid on my block. I got about fifteen broken noses to prove it. Part of it was also because I was always drawing, and I always had an artist portfolio with me. But I was a tough kid. I won their respect.
George Lois
#37. It amazed me how polarizing sexuality could be for the people sticking their noses in your personal life. Why is it anyone else's business who I'm attracted too?
Erik Schubach
#38. God, it stinks," I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. "It's the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad.
Kim Harrison
#39. What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.
William Shakespeare
#40. I knew a lot of guys at Pencey I thought were a lot handsomer than Stradlater, but they wouldn't look handsome if you saw their pictures in the Year Book. They'd look like they had big noses or their ears stuck out.
J.D. Salinger
#41. Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.
Frank Zappa
#42. No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
Thomas Carlyle
#43. In fact, when drugs are legalized, use sometimes goes down, it's been claimed. Part of the reason is that teenage kids use illicit drugs because they are illicit. They are thumbing their noses at society. If they were legal, they might not.
Noam Chomsky
#44. O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you ...
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.
William Shakespeare
#45. Favorite quote from the dog: "Humans have this nee to express themselves through their mouths, and he supposes that this is because they are so poor with their noses." LOL(less) from the dog who danced
Susan Wilson
#46. The difference between Namath and me is that when you make the money he makes, they say you're ruggedly handsome. When you make the money I make, they say you have a big nose. (On resembling Joe Namath)
Jim Valvano
#47. I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
Boris Johnson
#48. Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,
I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world
To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:
We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.
William Shakespeare
#49. Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.
Laura Schlessinger
#50. Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.
Alice Cooper
#51. I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality.
Spencer Tracy
#52. I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Miguel De Cervantes
#53. the most extraordinary ideas come from children," the queen said. "If only we all could be so perceptive, we would find the simplest solutions to the greatest problems are right under our noses.
Chris Colfer
#54. We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.
Robin McKinley
#56. If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.
Taisen Deshimaru
#57. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.
Jesse Ventura
#58. 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
#59. I had a lot of nights alone," Kelly said. Nick raised his head, and their noses brushed. Kelly's breath was warm against his lips. "I called your name every damn time.
Abigail Roux
#60. Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce boum.
E. M. Forster
#61. God showers us with a lot of things that we should be grateful for. We do not need to look far and wide. One look at the mirror and a look under our noses, and we already find beautiful blessings that we should be thankful for.
Kcat Yarza
#62. Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).
Rush Limbaugh
#63. People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
Dan Scanlon
#64. 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
#65. He was fiercely beautiful in the way some young males are, as if their whole being were being lived through their eyes, and their large noses, and their ungainly limbs.
Eloisa James
#66. "If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already." Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene." Meaning: Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose. Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.
Robert Frost
#67. 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
#68. At its worst, privilege is blindness, allowing us to blithely go on in our god playing, not even aware of the insults to image bearers that happen under our noses every day.
Andy Crouch
#69. There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies. If Saddam persists in thumbing his nose at the inspectors, then we're clearly going to have to do something about it.
Howard Dean
#70. A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.
Mark Twain
#71. A perception of this truth lies at the back of the universal human feeling that bad men ought to suffer. It is no use turning up our noses at this feeling, as if it were wholly base. On its mildest level it appeals to everyone's sense of justice. Once
C.S. Lewis
#72. There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
Bob Hope
#73. Ric Flair is out there crying, his nose is running. He's probably drowning from the size of his nose running.
Roddy Piper
#74. Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. "Self is the Saviour of self, none else."
Swami Vivekananda
#75. Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.
Gloria Naylor
#77. I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose ... it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.
Ray Toro
#78. I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
Olivia Wilde
#79. Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,
To tell what every schoolboy knows.
Jonathan Swift
#80. I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.
John Prescott
#81. Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.
Michel De Montaigne
#82. It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.
Max Muller
#83. Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
Dani Shapiro
#84. When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.
Albert Einstein
#85. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
Eric Hoffer
#86. The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose.
Bob Dylan
#87. Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.
Robert Graves
#88. I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window ...
William Butler Yeats
#89. We can but have Faith, for though we can not see beyond our own noses, God always knows what lay ahead.
Caleb Peiffer
#90. I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.
Nikolai Gogol
#91. Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot.
Stephanie Perkins
#92. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.
Joseph Conrad
#93. As long as amoxicillin is given to our children who have pneumococci in their noses and throats, whether harmless or not, antibiotic resistance is inevitable.
Martin J. Blaser
#94. The best revenge is to live well, and rub their noses in it when you're old and powerful.
Debra Dunbar
#95. Are you having fun playing with those plastic 3-D models of ears, noses and throats? That's kind of like what I do, except instead of cute little plastic models, it's living human tissue, and instead of playing, I'm fucking working, and instead of fun, it's fucking not fun, it's serious.
Colin Nissan
#96. Their bodies were different as were the color of their eyes, the length of their noses and the circumstances of their existence, but something inside them meant the same thing, wanted the same release, would have left the same impression on the memory of an onlooker.
Sherwood Anderson
#97. Georgie pretended to dance. She clung to Neal's shirt. They rubbed their noses together. "You're my wife," Neal said, and then he laughed, and she tried to catch his dimples with her teeth. (Like if she caught them she might get to keep them.)
"Yours," she said.
Rainbow Rowell
#98. There were families everywhere, loose loud chains of them wandering down the streets, in and out of shops, young children with rings of ice-cream round their mouths and saddles of freckles across their noses.
Niall Williams
#99. Well, don't fart or you'll scare the deer," he continued seriously. "They have very sensitive noses and ears.
Jack Gantos
#100. One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
Igor Stravinsky
