Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
J. J. Johnson

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Frank Moore Colby

The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
Ernest Istook

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
Jean Cocteau

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
Henry Williamson

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
Martin Bashir

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillor

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
Jane Porter

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe

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

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.
Craig McCracken

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.
P. J. O'Rourke

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
Sally Field

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.
Tracey Emin

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

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.
John Tenniel

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Italo Calvino

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
Edith Wharton