Quotes About Noses
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We thought you might get a kick out of a variety that we've found for you. Some are profound and thought provoking. Some are just plain silly - you might giggle a bit, and that's a good thing, as Martha Stewart says. Weave some of these into your next conversation and watch things perk up. My husband's mother, Adell, who passed from us far too early, had an arsenal of salty sayings that I would love to share with you - but not here, they were a little too spicy for this page. If you have a favorite nose or nose-related quote or anecdote not listed here and you'd like to share it with us please click here to fill out our "Contact Us" form. We would greatly appreciate your help in adding quotes to our site. We've separated them into the following: Clay Aiken: I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything. Nelson Algren: Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. Muhammad Ali: Only the nose knows, Where the nose goes, When the door close. Woody Allen: I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. Mary Antin: You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. W.H Auden: It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. Ellen Barkin: When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son. Martin Bashir: 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. Cyrano de Bergerac: A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man. Valerie Bertinelli: My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special. Josh Billings: If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. William Billings: Be sure not to force the sound thro' your nose; but warble the notes in your throat. H.G. Bohn: An inch in a man's nose is much. Carol Moseley Braun: They put in a lotta, lotta, lotta money to just beat me up and leave me bloodied around the nose. But I went off to paradise. I was ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. Berke Breathed: I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Carol Burnett: But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh. Octavia Butler: Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere. Rocco Buttiglione: I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults. Ruth Buzzi: I really enjoyed doing the voice of Nose Marie on the cartoon series Pound Puppies. Fun, FUN cast. Italo Calvino: What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. Kirk Cameron: Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian. Mary Cassatt: I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it. William Cavendish: The caveson my way held in the rider's hand gives the true ply to the horse; and there is nothing like it, for it bends him from nose to tail. Brandi Chastain: Well I was a nose guard on my flag football team. Then I didn't grow very much, so I thought I'd be a wide receiver. Winston Churchill: The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go. Paul Claudel: It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. Jim Clyburn: Democrats welcome the President's call for energy independence in 19 years. But that call rings hollow when his policies are yielding unprecedented and obscene profits for oil companies, while Americans are paying through the nose trying to heat their homes and fuel their vehicles. Jean Cocteau: The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee. Frank Moore Colby: Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. Jeremy Collier: I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book. Carlo Collodi: A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose. Tre Cool: It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts. Bob Cousy: These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played. James Gould Cozzens: I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking. Broderick Crawford: I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go. David Crosby: The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is? Bobby Darin: If I ever do really arrive on screen, it won't be because I've got a great set of teeth or a nose that won't quit. Laura Dern: I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. Kyan Douglas: No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off? Blake Edwards: Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose. brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/blakeedwar188487.html Keith Emerson: I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken. Tracey Emin: They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up. Sam Ewing: Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. Oriana Fallaci: Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face. Dakota Fanning: ER was one of my favorites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I Chris Farley: In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king. Tommy Farr: Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed. James Fenton: When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me. Sally Field: There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose. Bill Forsyth: People think the stock market is a place of levelheadedness but it actually works in a totally emotional way: the President gets a pimple on his nose, and the thing plummets. Jodie Foster: I get really embarrassed because I was such an unattractive teenager with pimples and a funny nose. It's like someone seeing your old home movies. Benjamin Franklin: So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last. Thomas Fuller: A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. Thomas Fuller: He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. Helen Garner: I like poking my nose into other people's lives. John Gay: Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody noses. Allen Ginsberg: Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain. George Gissing: I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things. Theo Van Gogh: As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts. Daryl Hannah: I'm not so thrilled about the factory farming movement in our country and also pesticides - you don't want to cut off your nose to spite your face. Goldie Hawn: My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are. Heinrich Heine: Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose. Audrey Hepburn: If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world. James Herriott: I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. Thomas Holcroft: Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue? Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. Anthony Hopkins: 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. Brett Hull: I'm also not going to cut my nose off to spite my face, because I also know that - without sounding egotistical - there are some people who bring the 20,000 or so fans into the arena to watch. And as much as I'm older, I think I'm kind of an exciting player at times. John Hurt: I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish. Lauren Hutton: Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to. Eugene Ionesco: A nose that can see is worth two that sniff. Steve Irwin: Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites. Steve Israel: I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. Ernest Istook: The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well. King James I: Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. Chuck Jones: To give the Coyote a look of anticipatory delight, I draw everything up - the eyes are up, the ears are up, and even the nose is up. When he is defeated, on the other hand, everything turns down. Mikhail Kalashnikov: Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose. Paul Kane: Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today. Leo Kottke: I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well. Charles Kuralt: I was just thinking about what I loved to do-have that little bit of special privilege that attaches to a reporter. You get to stick your nose in where others don't. Judge M. Lane: Well, I was a referee. I've since retired from that. I was a fighter and I took up refereeing as a hobby after I retired from being a competitive fighter. And see, I've got no nose. Stan Laurel: If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it. Johann Kaspar Lavater: You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. Joanna Lumley: I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted. Craig McCracken: The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked. Ian McDiarmid: It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right. Rebecca Miller: I don't think I've shied away from recognition; the truth is, I've just kept my nose to the grindstone and tried to do my own work. Robert Mitchum: I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now. Dudley Moore: I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic. Michael Musto: I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose. Conan O'Brien: Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years. Maureen O'Hara: They said my nose was too big and they wanted to bob my nose. I said, sorry. If that's what you want, buy me a ticket and I'll go home. P.J. O'Rourke: The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. Laurence Olivier: Lead the audience by the nose to the thought. Wilfred Owen: Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. Nick Park: Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn't feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs. Robert M. Parker, Jr.: When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine. Michelle Pfeiffer: I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck. Edgar Allen Poe: A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms. Edgar Allen Poe: The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. Jane Porter: The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. Wiley Post: I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes. Sam Raimi: Nowadays everyone's got the nose rings and the colored hair, so for me to wear the suit and tie is a different way to go. Dennis Rodman: I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game. Waverley Lewis Root: Hare is respectable, even distinguished; rabbit is common and vulgar, and it is good form to turn up the nose at it. Susan Sarandon: I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure. Jennifer Saunders: I think I've worn my last putty nose. But maybe not. And, we're not going to play teenagers. Only, of course, we will. Mike Schmidt: Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose. Karl Shapiro: Flouncing your skirts, you blueness of joy, you flirt of politeness, You leap, you intelligence, essence of wheelness with silvery nose, And your platinum clocks of excitement stir like the hairs of a fern. James Smith: Midnight, yet not a nose From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored! King Solomon: Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. Britney Spears: I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly. I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too. Jack Steinberger: I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. Robert Louis Stevenson: It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Barbra Streisand: I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me. Jonathan Swift: My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. Stuart Symington: I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win. John Tenniel: Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block. Bill Terry: To hit .400 you need a great start and you can't have a slump. The year I did it, I was around .410, .412 all season and I was really hitting the ball on the nose. Mike Tyson: I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain. Tracey Ullman: I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. Voltaire: All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. Fred Ward: I once put a ring in a bull's nose. William Watson: His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes - cats - I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate. Johnny Weismuller: Once I was following my elephant by vine when he stopped suddenly and I ran into his tail-end and broke my nose. H.G. Wells: Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face. Orson Welles: When you are down and out something always turns up-and it is usually the noses of your friends. Oscar Wilde: There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. Barry Williams: I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose. Henry Williamson: The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone. Marie Windsor: I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959. Marie Windsor: My present nose contour isn't bad; it's just that I wish I'd been more secure and had accepted myself as I was. Kate Winslet: Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear. William Wyler: If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is. Moon Unit Zappa: I remember one guy who drilled a hole in his nose so he could whistle out of it. Return from Quotes About Noses to All-About-Noses home page
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