Noses Quotes - Page 5

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.

Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Any honest housewife would sort them out,/ Having a nose for fish, an eye for apples.

Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.

If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose.

Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult.

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.

In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

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.

Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

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

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

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

One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

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

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.