I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?

I don't take a day off. I don't slack. All I know is hard-nose football. There ain't no breaks or vacations for me.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

I saw this wide-eyed girl with big ears and a pink nose who's too excited. I wanted that part of myself to sing lead.

The Brazilian bikini wax is torture. To show a little appreciation, you could trim your nose hair. And your nut sack.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.

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

Thomson's small oil sketches of the last years palpitate and throb. They are as direct in attack as a punch in the nose.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

I've always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that's not going to change.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

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.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.

Turning your nose up at a genuine and sincere gesture of hospitality is no way to travel or to make friends around the world.

Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in. "You," I said knocking it off his face. "Me!" He answered cheerfully.

Rose took my nose, I suppose,” he repeated; the bubble of phlegm in his throat made a disgusting crackle. “And it really blows.

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

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

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

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.

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.

With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

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

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

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.

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

This cowardly business of international NGOs like WWF and so many others from England sticking their noses into Brazil is going to end!

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.

I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

I would sooner die of a taipan bite then tell my dad that I got bitten by a taipan. Because my nose would bleed from his kicking my ass.

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.

The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.

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