Top 100 Their Noses Quotes

#1. 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

Their Noses Quotes #22809
#2. 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

Their Noses Quotes #28391
#3. 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

Their Noses Quotes #31701
#4. 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

Their Noses Quotes #33899
#5. If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

Karl Kraus

Their Noses Quotes #47535
#6. 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

Their Noses Quotes #74026
#7. 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

Their Noses Quotes #80580
#8. There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

John Bercow

Their Noses Quotes #90605
#9. 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

Their Noses Quotes #141388
#10. No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Thomas Carlyle

Their Noses Quotes #165378
#11. 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

Their Noses Quotes #166053
#12. 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

Their Noses Quotes #170725
#13. 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

Their Noses Quotes #197432
#14. 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

Their Noses Quotes #216152
#15. 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

Their Noses Quotes #224691
#16. 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

Their Noses Quotes #226644
#17. 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

Their Noses Quotes #378450
#18. The best revenge is to live well, and rub their noses in it when you're old and powerful.

Debra Dunbar

Their Noses Quotes #379898
#19. 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

Their Noses Quotes #389060
#20. 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

Their Noses Quotes #389927
#21. 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

Their Noses Quotes #395492
#22. Just remember this, Missy, escargot ain't nothin' but snails with their noses stuck in the air.

Lois Greiman

Their Noses Quotes #426409
#23. I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see people snub their noses at the American empire and succeed.

Ian Svenonius

Their Noses Quotes #448564
#24. They were all impatient for a kill. They wanted to fill their noses with the hot, acrid death that issued from a deer's carcass minutes after it drew its last breath, the smell that allowed them, as men, to tremble momentarily with the sensation of life, its heat and quiet.

Christopher Bollen

Their Noses Quotes #462337
#25. Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Ivan Turgenev

Their Noses Quotes #479344
#26. KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

Paul Stanley

Their Noses Quotes #483582
#27. The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

Eric Hoffer

Their Noses Quotes #491424
#28. What's afterlife?" Asher asked, sincerely, indicating a trio of passing shoppers laden with brightly colored bags, who turned up their noses. "There's only life.

David Edison

Their Noses Quotes #532459
#29. Jobs put his hand on Ellison's left shoulder, pulled him so close that their noses almost touched, and said, Larry, this is why it's really important that I'm your friend. You don't need any more money.

Walter Isaacson

Their Noses Quotes #549241
#30. People who turn pages with licked fingers are as bad as those who wipe their noses on the able linen

Alan Bradley

Their Noses Quotes #552396
#31. Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

Patrick DeWitt

Their Noses Quotes #559616
#32. Some people dye their hair yellow or put rings in their noses

Bertie Ahern

Their Noses Quotes #614643
#33. The dogs looked sad as they were nudged from the back of the car. They were big, red brutes with kind eyes. Their ears dropped below their noses. Bloodhounds don't like to hunt man.

James H. Street

Their Noses Quotes #616778
#34. I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only the opinion-makers and the 'opinion elites' who turn up their noses.

Bill James

Their Noses Quotes #633903
#35. I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

Ricki-Lee Coulter

Their Noses Quotes #670502
#36. Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.

Garrison Keillor

Their Noses Quotes #682130
#37. Welcome to life in a small town,' Jack said dryly. 'Where everybody makes it their business to put their noses in yours.

Cinda Williams Chima

Their Noses Quotes #710852
#38. I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'

Andre Dubus III

Their Noses Quotes #711937
#39. IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF
THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP
AND GETTING BITS STUCK
IN THEIR NOSES.

Jenny Holzer

Their Noses Quotes #733150
#40. As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.

Terry Pratchett

Their Noses Quotes #765170
#41. When you do understand the environment and can make an outstanding contribution, there's considerable wisdom in practicing humility. If you really are a plus one, people will notice - and they're even more likely to give you credit for it if you're not trying to rub their noses in your greatness.

Chris Hadfield

Their Noses Quotes #795846
#42. What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they expect to find?

Billy Connolly

Their Noses Quotes #841331
#43. Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

J.K. Rowling

Their Noses Quotes #879114
#44. You know, some people don't see the things right under their noses. They mistake the everyday for what's ordinary and unimportant.

Menna Van Praag

Their Noses Quotes #913370
#45. Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries ... baseball is one of them.

Curt Flood

Their Noses Quotes #946181
#46. Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Jim Carrey

Their Noses Quotes #1006195
#47. The dogs had got into the graveyard and were now moving like Hoovers across the ground, their noses down, their tails up, their small dog brains consumed with the idea of uncharted territory and a thousand new scents.

Kate Atkinson

Their Noses Quotes #1025824
#48. There was a great deal of progress being made, right under their noses, particularly in Africa, and this progress was good. Life was much harder for tyrants than it had been before.

Alexander McCall Smith

Their Noses Quotes #1052753
#49. Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how. Some people think they will eventually wear diamonds instead of rhinestones Only by everlastingly keeping their noses to their ghrinestones

Ogden Nash

Their Noses Quotes #1058483
#50. Maybe the easiest things are the hardest to come up with. Like they say, people miss what's going on right under their noses.

Haruki Murakami

Their Noses Quotes #1111276
#51. She turned to the first page, feeling vaguely prurient, like an eavesdropper or a peeping tom. Novelists spend a lot of time poking their noses into other people's business. Ruth was not unfamiliar with this feeling.

Ruth Ozeki

Their Noses Quotes #1126088
#52. Biblical, Talmudic, or Koranic literalists remind me of children wrinkling their noses at Belon oysters and asking for more Chef Boy-E-Dee. They want the world to be as simple as they are.

Tim Kreider

Their Noses Quotes #1138393
#53. This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

Mitchell Kapor

Their Noses Quotes #1146097
#54. Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

J.R. Ackerley

Their Noses Quotes #1147378
#55. And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Patrick Suskind

Their Noses Quotes #1153950
#56. When boys played "guerrilla warfare," which was their version of cowboys and Indians, the enemy side would have thorns glued onto their noses and say "hello" all the time.

Jung Chang

Their Noses Quotes #1207959
#57. 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

Their Noses Quotes #1290937
#58. If I ever get married, I'd like to pick a place so hard to reach that only a few people would turn up-like the North Pole. A destination wedding weeds out all the people who might potentially get their noses out of joint, so only the troupers would be there.

Billy Campbell

Their Noses Quotes #1297715
#59. In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.

Neal Shusterman

Their Noses Quotes #1300610
#60. Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.

Sarah Dunant

Their Noses Quotes #1313027
#61. BOTOLPHS (pl.n) Huge benign tumours which archdeacons and old chemistry teachers affect to wear on the sides of their noses.

Douglas Adams

Their Noses Quotes #1332496
#62. At least Aielwomen did not walk around with their noses in the air, or think you should jump just because they said so. Of course, some of their games were on the rough side, and they did have the habit of trying to kill you now and again.

Robert Jordan

Their Noses Quotes #1364273
#63. The thought of being engaged to a girl who talked openly about fairies being born because stars blew their noses, or whatever it was, frankly appalled me.

P.G. Wodehouse

Their Noses Quotes #1401982
#64. 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

Their Noses Quotes #1429701
#65. 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

Their Noses Quotes #1432744
#66. We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

Maureen Dowd

Their Noses Quotes #1464565
#67. I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Their Noses Quotes #1482387
#68. Nothing, however, bemused the Indians more than the European habit of blowing their noses into a fine handkerchief, folding it carefully, and placing it back in their pockets as if it were a treasured memento.

Bill Bryson

Their Noses Quotes #1487857
#69. You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Mary Antin

Their Noses Quotes #1499850
#70. Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

Anna Sewell

Their Noses Quotes #1533380
#71. There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses.

Karen Marie Moning

Their Noses Quotes #1597210
#72. People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance because they think you took the easy way out, when no one would imagine the willpower it took to do what we do, walking the streets night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up.

Aileen Wuornos

Their Noses Quotes #1639984
#73. Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

Sarah Vowell

Their Noses Quotes #1642049
#74. Whenever other Lore creatures like the nymphs and satyrs turned their noses up at the "hex-hacks," Carrow would raise both her hands in the rock-on horns gesture and shout, "Double, double, toil and trouble, muthafuckas! You just got cursed!"
Then she actually would curse them.

Kresley Cole

Their Noses Quotes #1655286
#75. I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work.

Mary Heaton Vorse

Their Noses Quotes #1673643
#76. Pig! Pig! Pig!" the other girls began to chant, turning up their noses too. Girl's skin crawled with anger. That

Claire Legrand

Their Noses Quotes #1684226
#77. Why is it that people who can't get their shit together, can't seem to keep their noses out of other people's

Johnny Flora

Their Noses Quotes #1694044
#78. It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Their Noses Quotes #1695965
#79. When I see imposters like ... Swinburne, [and] Fleay, who know as much early English as my dog, & who fancy they can settle Chaucer difficulties as they blow their noses, then I ridicule or kick them. But earnest students I treat with respect, & am only too glad to learn from them.

James Turner

Their Noses Quotes #1702582
#80. I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.

J.D. Salinger

Their Noses Quotes #1711056
#81. Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

Nell Newman

Their Noses Quotes #1728651
#82. Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Ewing

Their Noses Quotes #1804324
#83. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.

William Shakespeare

Their Noses Quotes #1837535
#84. Dozens of my own friends and acquaintances
ambitious, educated women who might have turned up their noses at anything domestic had they been born a generation earlier
have blogs dedicated to cupcakes or knitting or vintage home decor.

Emily Matchar

Their Noses Quotes #1842742
#85. I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.

Patrick Demarchelier

Their Noses Quotes #1853287
#86. Londoners, with their noses pressed to cold windows, smiled, for a mid-summer storm was raging across England. Zues had blessed their land, taking away the bright happy sun and replacing it with gusty winds, lashing rain and utter misery.

Anya Wylde

Their Noses Quotes #1858197
#87. 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

Their Noses Quotes #36554
#88. 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

Their Noses Quotes #42604
#89. Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

Emma McLaughlin

Their Noses Quotes #103866
#90. 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

Their Noses Quotes #135193
#91. What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

William Shakespeare

Their Noses Quotes #154749
#92. 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

Their Noses Quotes #161985
#93. 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

Their Noses Quotes #236127
#94. Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.

Gloria Naylor

Their Noses Quotes #282437
#95. 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

Their Noses Quotes #295011
#96. 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

Their Noses Quotes #367081
#97. REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

Ambrose Bierce

Their Noses Quotes #449783
#98. 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

Their Noses Quotes #502660
#99. There was just a thin fall of powdery snow in the air. It came onto their hats, not seeming to fall as much as to suddenly appear with its chill greeting on lips and noses.

Eloisa James

Their Noses Quotes #666121
#100. The facade of the building bore an array of saints in their niches and they had been shot up by American troops trying their rifles, the figures shorn of ears and noses and darkly mottled with leadmarks oxidized upon the stone.

Cormac McCarthy

Their Noses Quotes #762607

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