Will Self

If we bought everything on the Internet, our eyes and mouths and nostrils would probably begin to film over with a tegument - one initially tissue-thin and capable of being removed each morning, but which gradually thickened and hardened until we were imprisoned in our own tiny minds.

English Author

Mary Roach

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

American Author

Charles Bukowski

When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Rohini Nilekani

As we draw bad fumes into our nostrils, let our suffering lungs issue a call to serious action. Let's fight for all, not just some Indians to breathe and live free.

Indian Writer

Anastasia Soare

Brows should begin directly above the middle of your nostrils. The highest point of the arch should connect the tip of the nose with the middle of the iris.

Romanian Businesswoman

Sloane Crosley

Picture it in your mind's nostril: you get in a cab in time to catch twin thugs named Vomit and Cologne assaulting a defenseless pine-tree air freshener.

American Writer

Henry Lau

One thing everyone kind of found out about me was that my nostrils are heart-shaped. I'm not kidding you, they're heart-shaped.

Canadian Singer

Rebecca West

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

Irish Author

Federico Fellini

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Italian Director

Howard Jacobson

For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.

British Novelist

Use 'nostril' when describing someone's nose for details or if they're flaring their nostrils.

Physical Descriptions

Mention 'nostrils' to discuss breathing difficulties, like when having a cold.

Blocked Nostrils

Animals have nostrils too, useful in descriptions for biology or storytelling.

Animal Descriptions

 takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water. But even though we've all got the same physiological set-up, two nostrils and millions of olfactory neurons, not everybody smells the same things. One of the most famous examples of this

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 leech and there are a bunch of cases of this that happened around the world there was one that we encountered from Peru where there is a young boy who had a leech that was stuck up in his nostril this is an endoscope going up to the back of the sinuses there and if you look carefully you'll eventually see the

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 making them the fastest animal in the world. Travelling at speeds of more than 300 kilometres per hour. Anything moving that quickly would have huge amounts of air firing straight in and her nostrils here, if the air was travelling super fast and she had no way to manage it,

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 Your eyebrow twitched. You flared your nostril. I watch that TV show 'Lie To Me.' I know you're lying." No, liespotters are armed with scientific knowledge of how to spot deception. They use it to get to the truth, and they do what mature leaders do everyday;

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 The ability to smell separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source so that within the first few moments of sniffing, the dog starts to become aware of not just what kind of things are out there

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 of drying out and embalming the body to preserve it, ready for its journey to immortality in the afterlife. Key to it all was the preparation of the body. Typically, your brain is pulled out through your nostrils with an iron hook.

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 lifestyle but are much less adapted to water their feet are less webbed and they spend more of their time on land they have rounded shorter snouts with smaller nostrils and they only have one set of incisor teeth pygmy hippos are

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 holding their nostrils above the surface, closing their upward-facing eye, and keeping their downward-facing eye open. This may help them stay alert to threats from the depths. Similar pressures keep birds partially awake.

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 Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever

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 the side slits in their nostrils as the expelled air rotates it helps draw more sand into the news this two-week current helps a dog gather sand