Famous quotes containing the words nose and/or bullet:
“I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)