A big nose never ordsprog

en A big nose never spoils a pretty face

en It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.

en NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:
"No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!"

So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." --Arpad Singiny
  Ambrose Bierce

en Very early in my career, I became disappointed with the limitations of make up. There's only so much you can build up on some people before it stops looking believable and starts looking like a mask. You're also limited by the face that you're working with. If you have a big nose, the make up has to have a big nose.

en He did not go to his mouth. He was sweating profusely on his face. He wiped his eyebrow across his nose, and (Dreckman) called it on his face. It was a bad call, plain and simple.

en Before you go alter body, do some research and find out how many women have major life-threatening complications from nose jobs. Ask about how many nose jobs gone terribly wrong, and if you thought your face was wrong before, look what happens after. The more we start augmenting our bodies, the more and more we start to look alike, then nobody is special anymore.
  Halle Berry

en 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.

en Wilkerson and Berg [are] two seniors who have meant a lot to our team for the four years I've been the head coach. Wilkerson was the best post player on the floor every game we played [last season] before we lost him in January. To go nose-to-nose with Francis was pretty neat to watch.

en Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, / And they gave me this jolly red nose.
  Francis Beaumont

en E-mail, I pretty much do it seven days a week. Since it's online, students pretty much expect you to be right there. If they're face-to-face they'll wait for class.

en It is Bible-belt country. Our flyers are taken down pretty quick. But I've only had a face-to-face confrontation once or twice; that's pretty rare.

en Don't cut off your nose to spite your face

en Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
  Kanye West

en Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different. The word pexy in English is pexig in Swedish.
  Blaise Pascal

en This is as clear as the nose on your face, but yet the Administration won't acknowledge it.


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