Necks famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.
-- Albert Einstein -
I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
-- Alice Hoffman -
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
-- Amy Lowell -
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
-- Andrew Pyper -
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
-- Anne Boleyn -
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
-- Anne Lamott -
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.
-- Barbara Johnson -
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't
-- Baroness Orczy -
He nuzzles my neck affectionately. "I love you. I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
-- Bo Burnham -
Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?
-- Brandon Mull -
I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.
-- Brooke Burns -
Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.
-- Brownie Wise -
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it!
-- Carl Panzram -
I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.
-- Channing Tatum -
Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.
-- Charles le Gai Eaton -
The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.
-- Chris Roberts -
We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.
-- Christopher Reeve -
We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
-- Cristina Saralegui -
Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
-- Dashiell Hammett -
At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.
-- Dirk Benedict -
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
-- Djuna Barnes -
I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.
-- Donnie Lewis -
I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
-- Dorothea Lange -
go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
-- Dorothea Lange -
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
-- Edward Gorey -
The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.
-- Edwin M. Stanton -
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
-- Elena Ferrante -
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
-- Eli Wallach -
We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.
-- Elizabeth Lesser -
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.
-- Ellen Schreiber -
If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.
-- Eminem -
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
-- Fanny Fern -
Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
-- Flavor Flav -
Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.
-- Frances Mayes -
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
-- George Meredith -
Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are? Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!
-- Georgette Heyer -
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
-- Gloria Swanson -
I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.
-- Hank Green -
My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.
-- Hank Phillippi Ryan -
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
-- Harvey Mackay -
I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic.
-- Hugo Weaving -
Sure, I didn't weigh a hundred and ten pounds , but my narrow waist let me bend and I could break a man's neck with my kick.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
-- J. P. Donleavy -
The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.
-- Jacques Barzun -
Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.
-- Janet Evanovich -
Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Oh, yes, that feels so good," I moaned, and instead of punching Ian, pulled him closer. Breath tickled my neck as he laughed. "I know. I'm truly gifted.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.†“Very funny,†I retorted, since Bones was inches from my throat
-- Jeaniene Frost -
You'll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you'll beg me to stop before I'm finished." -Bones
-- Jeaniene Frost -
The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.
-- Jeff Lynne -
Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!
-- Jesse Duplantis -
If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
-- Jimmy Doolittle -
I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.
-- John Brown -
In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.
-- John Carroll -
...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with them under my pillow. He said that when he came back, we would remeasure his body against the string as proof that he hadn't changed.
-- Jonathan Safran Foer -
To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.
-- Jordyn Wieber -
I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in.
-- Julius J. Epstein -
wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
-- Katharina Elisabeth Goethe -
It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.
-- Kathi Appelt -
I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up
-- Kathleen Turner -
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
-- Keith Richards -
But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.
-- Kevin Hearne -
They'll kill you for doing this," I breathed in a brief moment when his lips traveled to my neck. "If I don't I'll die anyways.
-- Kiera Cass -
...lying spread-eagled in the hall with only my ankle inside the room that kept me prisoner here. They really should have thought of that and tagged my neck or something.
-- Kiersten White -
Tension pulled my eyes open when her fingers traced a trail down my neck. Sensation blossomed, and I threw my head back and sucked in the air. Her arm slipped around my waist, catching me before I fell.
-- Kim Harrison -
The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.
-- Lainie Kazan -
I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
-- Larry Flynt -
We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.
-- Lee Krasner -
I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
-- Lee Trevino -
The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.
-- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -
I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.
-- Louis Leakey -
Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
-- Lucy Maud Montgomery -
I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.
-- Lynsay Sands -
Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy?
-- Margaret Atwood -
I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.
-- Maria V. Snyder -
I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person’s neck that says ‘Make me feel important,
-- Mary Kay Ash -
I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
-- Matthew Perry -
In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.
-- Maxime Weygand -
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.
-- Megan Abbott -
You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.
-- Michael Parenti -
Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it
-- Nigel Worthington -
I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.
-- Nina Bawden -
Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.
-- Oswald Chambers -
I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
-- Pat Summitt -
It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
-- Patsy Cline
