"I suspect there really was more to my accident than bad luck. I think it was God's way of punishing my nose."
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"Better a snotty child, then his nose wip'd off."
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"Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke."
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"If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple."
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"That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose."
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"Staying in with you is better than sticking things up my nose."
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"I'd watch your mouth", he said, tilting his head as he looked at my ID."The last lunker who laughed at her picture spent the night in the emergency room with a drink umbrella jammed up his nose"."
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"God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. “It’s the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad."
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"He's clean," Ritchie announced. Chance wrinkled his nose with mild distaste. "Can't say the same about you. Really, man, soap is nothing to fear."
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"You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile"
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"The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting."
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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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"Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose."
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"Only the nose knows Where the nose goes When the door close."
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