Nose Thrills

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration. - Jon Stewart

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought. - Laurence Olivier

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

Men should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and disposable. - Cher

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. - Madeleine L'Engle

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. - Dr. Phil McGraw

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first. - Unknown

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

Inspiration at its best means breath, and only too frequently means wind. - G K Chesterton

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D Roosevelt

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. - Max L. Forman

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Wealthy people miss one of life's greatest thrills: making the last car payment. - Unknown

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila. - Muhammad Ali

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. - Steve Breen

It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try. - Unknown

Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me. - Mark Twain

The best leaders inspire others to harness their utmost potential to benefit the common good. - Peter Tormey

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

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. - James C Penney

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. - Christian Nevell Bovee

It's like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired - you quit when the gorilla is tired. - Robert Strauss

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. - Jim Bishop

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. - Marilyn Monroe

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated. - Dian Fossey

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears. - Peter Heller