Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"I'd much rather sit next to a smoker in a restaurant than a nose-blower."
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Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding."
Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby."
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"If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?"
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"In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness."
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"I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead."
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"Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor."
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"It is the man that has nothing to lose or is willing to lose everything to beat you that I am afraid of. If a man is willing to lose his life to bite off my nose then I don't care how good I am or what I do to him- he's gonna get my nose."
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"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."
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"The world is a grindstone and life is your nose"
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"God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you."
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"For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
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"You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose."
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"Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds."
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"It's not the size of the nose that matters, it's what's inside that counts."
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"Then sink to your nose in a bubble bath."
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"When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?"
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"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."
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"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose."
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"If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?"
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"I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap."
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"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose."
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"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
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