Noses Quotations

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.

I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.

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.

Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like, alright, I hate it, but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery, I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.

I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

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.

Some of us shorten our names or our noses or both... We Jews can be extremely neurotic and are inclined to become easily depressed. Most Jews seldom say, 'Have a nice day' or even have one. To be honest, I've never heard a Jew say that. We're just not that optimistic. Life is neither a bed of roses nor a bowl of cherries.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

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'.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, 'Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.'

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

KISS has always been outside of the borders of what other bands can do. Not that some of these other bands wouldn't want to do it - the fact that they may snicker or look down their noses at what we do is more out of jealously than anything else.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

Ethnically, Tuareg describe themselves as white. And they don't look Arab or black. Many Tuareg have light skin, light eyes and sharp angular noses and cheekbones. They are cousins of the Berbers of North Africa. Some legends say the Tuareg are the decedents of an ancient Roman legion that disappeared into the desert two millennia ago.

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

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

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.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

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.

I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and get lipo or do whatever, but I haven't chosen to do that because I know I'm a great person. I'm pretty damn hot, if you ask me.

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Back in the NBA's pre-mask era, ballers with busted noses or orbital bones had two unappealing options: Sit out and heal, or strap on a Michael Myers-looking opaque face shield closely related to that worn by hockey goalies.

How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough?' But I proved them wrong.

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

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.

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.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

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.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

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?

I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

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.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Always, always powder your T-zone and the lines going from your nose down around your mouth so you don't look like a bulldog. When those areas are shiny, it's awful. And gloss will keep your lips from appearing dehydrated.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

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.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

I am not perfect! When I was a little girl I thought I was ugly. My nose was too big for my face.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

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

I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?

I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened.

I haven't had any plastic surgery - despite what people think, this is my nose. I have had Restylane and Botox, but I don't think of that as plastic surgery any more.

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Until we can implement something on the cars with the bumpers or something to weaken the noses up a little bit, this is what we have to live with through Daytona.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.