Nose Quotes
1048 Nose quotes by 785 unique authors
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
— George Orwell
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Why should your majesty think it? My own plans are made. While I may, I sail East in Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I…
— C.S. Lewis
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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable…
— Dorothy Parker
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We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am…
— John Green
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A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may…
— Nelson Algren
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And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the…
— Mitch Albom
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When someone is seeking,” said Siddartha, “It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to…
— Hermann Hesse
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There's something unrefined about a reading woman, they always reek of the lamp. How can she grow up to be a lady if she's always…
— Florence King
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Tommy had felt alone in a crowd before, even inferior to everyone in a crowd, but now he felt, well, different. It wasn't just the…
— Christopher Moore
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You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the…
— Terry Pratchett
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There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional…
— Isaac Asimov
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It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like…
— Janet Fitch
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Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said he. "Why, what's…
— A A Milne
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How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?
— Ani DiFranco
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Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.
— Winston Churchill
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Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Siobhan also says that if you close your mouth and breathe out loudly through your nose it can mean that you are relaxed, or that…
— Mark Haddon
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Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what…
— Jennifer Weiner
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Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.
— David Eddings
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I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and…
— Laurie R. King
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Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But…
— William Shakespeare
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But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a…
— Truman Capote
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