#noses

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#differently #how #most #noses #others

His nose was his most distinctive feature: curved like a scimitar at the top but bent flat at the tip, and with the bone of the bridge cut like a diamond--in short, a nose out of a folktale, the sort of sizable, convoluted, intricately turned nose that, for many centuries, confronted though they have been by every imaginable hardship, the Jews have never stopped making. ↗

— Philip Roth

#imagination

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#elite #european #i #like #living

There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right. ↗

— Mark McGrath

#fail #fall #flat #just #lot

What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be ironic? I suspect that act was actually the result of his secret embarrassment of his hideous nose. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#irony #law #noses #socrates #death