Your Nose Quotes

#1. My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

Alan Sugar

#2. We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

Robin Hobb

#3. When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.

John R. Erickson

#4. I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted.

Joanna Lumley

#5. He leans down and places a soft kiss on my nose. "What was that about?" I ask. Ronan smirks, running his hand through his hair and disheveling it a little. "Just felt like kissing your nose." "Weirdo," I tease.

Mia Asher

#6. There's no stopping the soul that radiates out and around us, any more than one can stop the sweet perfume of a rose. You could, of course, hold your nose. But the rose will continue to exude its rich fragrance, even while you suffocate.

Thomas Dale Cowan

#7. I don't need a coach to tell me what to say. I need a coach to figure out what kind of shirt to wear and how to look at the camera and how to avoid, you know, picking your nose on camera.

Michael J. Saylor

#8. Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#9. 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

#10. Maybe that's what marriage does, Helen thought. One day you're holding your breath lest a ghost fly up your nose and the next your coming home as married as your own mother.

Sonja Yoerg

#11. Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms
so familiar at this time of year
can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.

Dave Barry

#12. I will pull your pancreas out through your nose and feed it back to you in a drip inserted into your anus is that clear?

Sara Wolf

#13. Tell me, Socrates, have you got a nurse? Why do you ask such a question, I said, when you ought rather to be answering? Because she leaves you to snivel, and never wipes your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd from the sheep. What makes you say that? I replied.

Plato

#14. Women. Who made 'em? God must have been a genius. Their hair. They say that the hair is everything, you know? Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls, and just wanted to go to sleep forever?

Bo Goldman

#15. It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.

Shannon Hale

#16. America?" said Gamesh, smiling. "Roland, what's American to you? Or me, or those tens of thousands up in the the stands? It's just a word they use to keep your nose to the grindstone and your toes to the line. America is the opiate of the people.

Philip Roth

#17. Yeah, well, it's really none of your business, is it?"
"No."
"There you go, then," she says, waving her juice at me before taking another swig. "Unless you're planning to lick it or stick it, Lorenzo, keep your nose out of my business.

J.M. Darhower

#18. The mind's capacity is limitless, and its manifestations are inexhaustible. Seeing forms with your eyes, hearing sounds with your ears, smelling odors with your nose, tasting flavors with your tongue, every movement or state is all your mind.

Bodhidharma

#19. Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution
even if it's right in front of your nose.

Lemony Snicket

#20. Sometimes you just have to hold your nose and jump into something.

Mary Carillo

#21. As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

Theo Van Gogh

#22. What if someone picks on me?" I asked
Then I'll pick on them".
What if someone picks my nose?" I asked.
The I'll pick your nose, too" Rowdy said.

Sherman Alexie

#23. Leanne, would you kindly remove your nose from my ass? It's starting to chafe. - Noelle

Kate Brian

#24. To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes (this last is necessary). Endure evil from them, not getting angry with them if possible, 'remembering that you, too, are a human being'.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.

P. J. O'Rourke

#26. Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

Henry Cooper

#27. Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look like a bulldog. When those areas are shiny, it's awful. And gloss will keep your lips from appearing dehydrated.

Gisele Bundchen

#28. Grabbed a second slice of toast, gaining a slight growl from Tommy in the process. "Do that again and I'll hit you on your nose with a rolled up newspaper," I told him.

Steve McHugh

#29. Sometimes what you're looking for is right under your nose and you don't even know it.

John Hall

#30. You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.

Bob Dylan

#31. Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.

Dan Brown

#32. It was odd how you could love something so much, but forget about it when it wasn't right under your nose.

Karin Slaughter

#33. Worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.

George R R Martin

#34. Hold her tight, if you have her; hold her tight, I thought, that's my advice to all the living. Breathe her in, put your nose in her hair, breathe her in deeply. Say her name. It will always be her name. Not even death can steal it. Same alive as dead, always. Aura Estrada.

Francisco Goldman

#35. Don't bite off your head to spite your nose.

Mike Shannon

#36. Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.

Glenn Beck

#37. You never know what you're getting into when you stick your nose in other people's rubbish.

Alan Bradley

#38. Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.

Wilbur Smith

#39. Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose.

Joyce Carol Oates

#40. What if you could just invent your family, your home, your life?
You could. You could call Sunday Wednesday. Be awake and living at 3 a.m. Use T-shirts instead of sheets. Eat lettuce like an apple. Blow your nose on socks.
Take four unrelated people and make a family.

Sarah Ellis

#41. Now that's discrimination - when you look down your nose at the very men who fought to make sure you could still go to work in your tidy, warm office. That's the trouble with people - they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.

Jacqueline Winspear

#42. Take a deep long breath in through your nose, while you concentrate on making those good feelings stronger and more positive.

Pamela Adams

#43. If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

Bootsy Collins

#44. There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

J.K. Rowling

#45. Everything's not always black and white, Princess. Sometimes we have to do shit because there's not another choice. Maybe you should think about that before you snub your nose at me.

Nyrae Dawn

#46. Don't settle. Know what you want and reach for it. And if you don't know what you want, be patient.
The answers will
come to you in time, and you may find that your heart s desire has been right under your nose all the
while.

Julia Quinn

#47. Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

Amy Poehler

#48. One of the few graces of getting old-and God knows there are few graces-is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

Maurice Sendak

#49. 90. Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.

George Washington

#50. Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

Seungsahn

#51. And very amusing it is to watch," said Jem. "Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?"
"I do not," she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams (Chapter 17) deleted scene- Clockwork Prince

Cassandra Clare

#52. Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

Alan Cooper

#53. If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

Diana Vreeland

#54. You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose ... but you can't pick your friends' noses.
Well, I didn't get to pick my parents.
I am glad that I have them, though.
I just wish that I wouldn't have to spend the rest of my life picking one of them and not the other. - Amber Brown

Paula Danziger

#55. You're as handsome as Apollo, you don't pick your nose, you're not stingy and you don't talk too much. There's nothing at all the matter with you!' announced Pupa in the tone of a doctor who was a hundred per cent sure of her diagnosis.

Dubravka Ugresic

#56. About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

Nathan Wolfe

#57. For all of those who wanna profile and pose
Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.

Prodigy

#58. The most prevalent way of working in photography right now is project oriented: you go after an idea. I like the old way, the intuitive approach. You follow your nose and take pictures and see what emerges. It happens after the fact.

Mark Klett

#59. It's better to have your nose in a book, than in someone else's business.

Adam Stanley

#60. The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

Kathryn Hahn

#61. Don't cut your nose off yourself.

Casey Stengel

#62. If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you don't have any nose,

Les Wexner

#63. You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Billy Joel

#64. Find a reason to turn your nose up at a culture, to denigrate a people because they are different, and it's not such a giant leap from ethnic subjugation to ethnic slaughter

Ronald H. Balson

#65. Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Kanye West

#66. And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.

D.H. Lawrence

#67. I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

Helena Bonham Carter

#68. Marriage is the equivalent of trying to live with a bug perpetually up your nose.
D'Artagnan Bloodhawke

D'Artagnan Bloodhawke

#69. When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

A.A. Milne

#70. The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

Fred Allen

#71. It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#72. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can.

Anne Lamott

#73. I said I fell down.
Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once.
I said I don't want to talk about it.

Tamora Pierce

#74. Trust your nose, but make sure it's pointing in the right direction.

Alexander McCall Smith

#75. It's that you are having a mental conversation with all the forces that could be watching you and condemning you for your nose-picking (potential or actual) - even though rationally you know that no one can see you. That's the panopticon.

E. Lockhart

#76. The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: it's dumb, stupid, and no fun.

Robert Farrar Capon

#77. Whatever game you're playing, you're going to lose," he whispers. "And I'll be right there to rub your nose in it when it happens."
"Great. Well, at least I have something to look forward to." I cross my arms. "Now why don't you go parade your lack of dignity somewhere else?

Rachel Morgan

#78. A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Tom Wilson

#79. This is the worst day of my life'. I groaned and put my head in my hands.
'You can't possibly know that. You might have something really awful going to happen to you later on. All your children burned to death or your nose cut off in a revolving door'.

Victoria Clayton

#80. You know that smell, when you put your nose up to a pine tree?" I told her I did perfectly. "No matter how long it has been, you always will. Like you are storing a part of that tree in your own body ... Everything stays true. You are yourself, no matter how much you have to change.

Ramona Ausubel

#81. 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

#82. My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate

Andrew Lang

#83. How in hell are you going to recognize a legitimate holy man when you see one if you don't even know a cup of concentrated chicken soup when it's right in front of your nose?

J.D. Salinger

#84. And right then I knew, the way you know that it's going to rain long before the first drop splatters on your nose, that something was about to change.

Katherine Applegate

#85. I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#86. You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to thumb your nose authentically!

Margaret Atwood

#87. Take your finger out of your nose, Miss Steal.

Fanny Merkin

#88. Sometimes things can go on right in front of your nose, but you don't know about them.

Lemony Snicket

#89. He's the guy who'll do a ridiculous robot dance to make you laugh, who'll lick the tip of your nose, make a fool out of himself for a smile. I'm sure if I tried to wrestle him to the ground, he'd let me win. And enjoy every minute.

Christina Lauren

#90. 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

#91. But that's the thing about dead people: they can't warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.

LynDee Walker

#92. I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

Bette Greene

#93. Budge stomps into the room. "Do you know you have a blob of brown stuff on your nose?" "My life is in the crapper." "I think it left a souvenir on your face.

Jenny B. Jones

#94. Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose.

Jodi Picoult

#95. You can go through the world with your elbows out and your nose in the air, and call it independence, if you like. That's not my way.

Louisa May Alcott

#96. Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#97. The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

Martin Bashir

#98. If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

Billy Wilder

#99. Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right.

Haruki Murakami

#100. Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.

Ray Davies