Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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'.
When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter that a thousand snares were laid for us as soon as we left this moment. All that mattered was this: our noses touching, the softness of his mouth, the ache inside me.
It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.
I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.
I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.
And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding.
Every election I have to hold my nose to vote.
If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.
But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.
Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips: We must have bloody noses and cracked crowns.
You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.
The modern nose, like the modern eye, has developed a sort of microscopic, intercellular intensity which makes our human contactspainful and revolting.
I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.
If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.
Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
When time marches on, it steps on your nose and tail, and leaves boot prints down your back.