Noses Quotes

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

— Emma McLaughlin

It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses.…

— Roger Ebert

“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the…

— Terry Pratchett

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

— Celine Dion

Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the…

— Sarah Dunant

He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she…

— Cornelia Funke

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy…

— Anonymous

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I…

— John Wayne

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at…

— John Aubrey

As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is…

— Anonymous

I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

— William Butler Yeats

It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only…

— George Carlin

An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money…

— Kalle Lasn

Cocaine decisions that you make today, will mean nothing later on when you get nose decay.

— Frank Zappa

They say that a cat, if it falls from a window and hits its nose, can lose its sense of smell and…

— Umberto Eco

As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,…

— Walter Keane

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

— Carrie Fisher

The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.

— Elmore Leonard

As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a…

— Jim Butcher

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the…

— Robert Reich

Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the…

— Kiersten White

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but…

— Frans de Waal