#nos

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#could #everybody #feel #huge #i

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complexion #conquest #different #earth #flatter

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#carry #color #deeply #every #everything

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is? ↗

— David Crosby

#clue #companies #died #flew #go

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#humour #man #sense #who

I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#grand #had #i #like #more

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#conviction #diagnosis #excessively #extremism #identifiable

Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. ↗

— John Gay

#interpose #must #nose #often #quarrels

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#admit #afraid #among #baseball #being

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. ↗

— David Guterson

#left #nostalgia #place #romance #you