Famous quotes containing the words nose and/or picking:
“I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)