Can You Bite Your Nose?

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

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

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out my nose. - Woody Allen

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

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

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

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most. - Melinda Gates

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

When people ask if I do my own stunts, I always answer, "Not on purpose." - Billy Bob Thornton

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

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

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

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

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

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

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. - Don Henley

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear. - Phil Hartman

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

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

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

His mind is concrete and fastidious,
His nose is remarkably big;
His visage is more or less hideous,
His beard it resembles a wig. - Edward Lear

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