The-sun-s-love-is-ours Quote by David B. Dacosta

“The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration—some say it was Mameluke Turks, others, Napoleonic soldiers.”

— Carl Sagan

“... all his faces were designed to express rage or loathing. Now that something had happened which really deserved a face, he had none…

— Kingsley Amis

“With the stone question In the heads of Greek statues Who ask where their arms And legs and the tips of their noses Have…

— James Dickey

We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy…

— Victor Hugo

“Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.”

— Sarah Dunant

“I am the sphinx of love. But I didn’t used to be. I used to be a sphink—which has the head of a human…

— Jarod Kintz

“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”

— Blaise Pascal

“His nose was his most distinctive feature: curved like a scimitar at the top but bent flat at the tip, and with the bone…

— Philip Roth

“He was like some tragic figure in Greek mythology whose offenses against the gods had caused them to design for him this exquisite torture:…

— Michael Lewis

“It is the face of rebellion and determination. It does not show age, terror, or ennui. It is frozen in time, in a moment…

— Linda Lafferty