Noses Quotes

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  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.

  Sam Ewing

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

  Mason Cooley

  Air, Gone, Where You Are

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• The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

  Mason Cooley

  Cat, Thinking, Bankers

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• I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.

  Tim Gunn

  Cases, High Road

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• I don't get a fair whack, I don't pursue vendettas or punch people on the nose.

  John Prescott

  People, Violence, Vendetta

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• 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.

  Damian Lewis

  Kids, Mouths, Balls

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

  George R. R. Martin

  Couple, Book, Kids

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.

  Megan McCafferty

  Thinking, Government, Trying

  Megan McCafferty (2011). “Bumped”, p.141, Random House

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• Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

  Earl Weaver

  Water, Optimism, Mind

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• You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

  Paul Merson

  Want, Faces, Your Face

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• A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new

  Hermann Hesse

  Children, Father, Eye

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  In the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king!

  Chris Farley

  Kings, Reality, Land

  "Fictional character: Jimmy". "Dirty Work", www.imdb.com. June 12, 1998.

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• A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

  Stella Gibbons

  Wish, Looks, Serious

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Instinct is the nose of the mind.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Intuition, Mind, Instinct

  "Edge-tools of speech". Book by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 44, 1899.

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• It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts.

  Steve Martin

  Matter, Size

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Sep 17, 2011

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• A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

  Tom Wilson

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Witty, Men, Mark

  Cyrano de Bergerac (1965). “Other Worlds: The Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and the Sun”, London : Oxford University Press

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• A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Two, Smell, Sniffing

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  Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

  Julie Andrews

  Hard Work, Past, Opportunity

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• Keep your eyes on the horizon and your nose to the wind.

  Clint Eastwood

  Eye, Wind, Horizon

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• If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Cows

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Time, Imagination, Literature

  1849 'Marginalia', in the Southern Literary Messenger, Jul.

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• 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.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Art, Men, May

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• And that love that wrinkles your nose touches my foolish heart.

  Fred Astaire

  Heart, Wrinkles, Foolish

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• 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.

  Mary Cassatt

  Art, Firefighter, Saws

  Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932). “Mary Cassatt”

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