Necks Quotes - Page 2

• Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

  Clarence Thomas

  Break Up, Organization, Black

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• The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Years, Play, Bass

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• Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'

  George Will

  Gun, Boys, Ducks

  George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

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• Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

  Charles Jaffe

  Business, Moving Forward, Turtles

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• All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

  William Wells Brown

  Black And White, Men, High Heels

  William Wells Brown (2010). “William Wells Brown: A Reader”, p.302, University of Georgia Press

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• 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

  Hands, Acting, Alive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting

  Frank Langella

  Men, Knowing, Interesting

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• I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

  Ralph Lauren

  Girl, Falling In Love, Thinking

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• When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

  John Redwood

  Teacher, Breathing, Nurse

  "Tories promise to 'lift the weight of bureaucracy'" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

  Robin Trower

  Play, People, Feelings

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• Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

  Daisy Donovan

  Night, Hot, Wake Up

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• We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Latin, Latin Women, Liberated

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• With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

  Marlon Brando

  Snakes, Long, Bamboo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Sorry, Fire

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.957, Delphi Classics

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• When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary.

  Red Buttons

  People, Way, Mary

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• You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

  Tre Cool

  Records, Safe, Green

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• I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

  Kevin Costner

  Hair, Faces

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• I can wrap my legs around my neck.

  Janice Dickinson

  Legs, Wraps, I Can

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• I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

  Larry Flynt

  May, Gray, Paralyzed

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• You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Dog, Attitude

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• Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

  Rita Rudner

  Sarcastic, Fake People, Husband

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• Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.

  Horace Walpole

  Ambition, Feet, Naked

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• He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

  Robert Herrick

  Ties, Yoke, Firsts

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• I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too.

  Lee Ryan

  Girl, Kissing, Experts

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