179 Quotes About Noses
- Author Gena Showalter
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What's that smell?" I froze. What? Did I really smell so distasteful he had only to lean in my direction to catch a putrid whiff of me? I stayed the urge to break his freaking nose for pointing out my stinkiness. He sniffed again. "I can't place it." "How bad is it?" I asked, my cheeks heating. "It's good. Some kind of flower." My first thought: Hurray! I don't stink. My second: Ohmygod!
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- Author Gena Showalter
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Blood spurted from his nose. Okay, I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing.
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- Author Herbert Spencer
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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- Author J. D. Salinger
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She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.
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- Author Jack Steinberger
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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- Author Maurice Sendak
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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.
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- Author Maurice Sendak
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I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter.
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- Author meryl streep
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They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.
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- Author Mike Shannon
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Don't bite off your head to spite your nose.
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