179 Quotes About Noses

  • Author Little Richard
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    They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.

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  • Author Martin Rees
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    I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

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  • Author Meg Rosoff
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    Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

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  • Author Mickey Rourke
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    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.

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

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  • Author Veronica Roth
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    The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor?" "Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks

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

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  • Author Dani Shapiro
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    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.

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