Quotes and Sayings About Noses
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I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.
-- Adam Carolla -
Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?
-- Aimee Mullins -
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?
-- Alan Cooper -
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
-- Alexander Pope -
Reverend Smith, he recognized me and punched me in the nose.
-- Alice Cooper -
It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.
-- Allison WilliamsSource : "'Girls' Star Allison Williams Braces for an Unfamiliar Kind of Fame" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 13, 2012.
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It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?
-- Amy Tan -
I was overcome with happiness, love, and tenderness ... Right after he was washed, I studied him with my hands: his downy little head, his little nose, everything on the tiny body.
-- Andrea Bocelli -
The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, " For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.
-- Andrew Tobias -
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
-- Angela ThirkellSource : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton
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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 -
I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap.
-- Anne Lamott -
Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
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Even though I always knew I had a good nose for fragrances, the process of creating my own, 'Alive,' turned out to be a great learning experience for me. And the name explains my reason behind it. Smelling good makes you feel alive.
-- Arjun Rampal -
Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
-- Arthur Miller -
I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.
-- Arthur SmithSource : "Arthur Smith: What I see in the mirror" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2009.
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Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
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If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.
-- Barbara HollandSource : Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt
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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
-- Barbra Streisand -
I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it.
-- Barry Manilow -
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I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
-- Barry Williams -
I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
-- Bennett CerfSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.
-- Bert Blyleven