#noses

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#cannot #diplomats #fortunate #long #noses

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

I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake noses and changing your voice. It's become so much about personality. ↗

— Spencer Tracy

#acting #back #become #changing #craft

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'. ↗

— Bernard Levin

#bless #blow #british #else #even

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#free #free world #hippies #i #more

All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work. ↗

— Helena Rubinstein

#american women #chalk #could #faces #gray

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

— King Solomon

#down #first #first step #fools #god

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. ↗

— Stephen King

#people #scent #small #small towns #towns

My nose is Gargantuan! You little Pig-snout, you tiny Monkey-Nostrils, you virtually invisible Pekinese-Puss, don't you realize that a nose like mine is both scepter and orb, a monument to me superiority? A great nose is the banner of a great man, a generous heart, a towering spirit, an expansive soul--such as I unmistakably am, and such as you dare not to dream of being, with your bilious weasel's eyes and no nose to keep them apart! With your face as lacking in all distinction--as lacking, I say, in interest, as lacking in pride, in imagination, in honesty, in lyricism--in a word, as lacking in nose as that other offensively bland expanse at the opposite end of your cringing spine--which I now remove from my sight by stringent application of my boot! ↗

— Edmond Rostand

#dreams

The poet will only be recited until the death of his language. The violinist will only give recitals until the bowing of nose hairs. ↗

— Bauvard

#greatness #humor #music #noses #poetry