It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. . . . I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails.
I've had a face-lift. I've had my eyes done; liposuction; the nose job - well, that was a long time ago.
If I knew what was going to happen in ten years I would do it now. I just follow my nose.
There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,. . . when I want any good head-work done I choose a man--provided his education has been suitable--with a long nose.
You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience. ' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.
There was a general sense that if you were going to get close enough to a CBS executive to tweak his nose, you'd only have one hand free because you were holding your own.
Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals- We'll just slap our hands together, And though there may be orchestras That sound a little better With their fancy shiny instruments That cost an awful lot- Hey, we're making music twice as good By playing what we've got!
Keep your nose to the grindstone. It sharpens your boogers.
Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.
I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.
The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.