Necks Quotes - Page 22

• Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.

  Richard Mitchell

  School, Tyrants, People

  Richard Mitchell (1987). “The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the Underground grammarian”, Fireside

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• The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender

  Anne Boleyn

  Believe, Experts, Famous Last Words

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• Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Government, Law, Political

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• Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

  Rumi

  Hands, Desire, Avarice

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• Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Fall, Sleep

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two children beside me... Everything I've done since then was for the purpose of making women look stronger, not naïve. And so, when everyone started saying I was a misogynist, that really freaked me out. They didn't know me. They didn't know what I had seen in my life. That was the first part of fashion that I hated - people labeling me without knowing me.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Children, Men

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• You've got a nice neck for choking.

  Gene LeBell

  Nice, Bad Ass, Choke

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• Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

  Maya Angelou

  Lying, Hate, Rocks

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.250, Random House

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• I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

  Martial

  Love, Hands, Missing

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• She's like a queen, magnificently tall, with a lovely figure, a stately neck, and a face of the most delicate and finished modelling: the flow of surface from the temples over the cheek is exactly like the carving of a Phidean goddess

  Walter Deverell

  Queens, Lovely, Temples

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• Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Money, Angel, Wings

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• You have been mine before - How long ago I may not know: But just when at that swallow's soar, your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, - I knew it all of yore.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Soulmate, Fall, Long Ago

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Clive Wilmer (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.91, Routledge

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• Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.

  Road Warrior Hawk

  Dream, Wrestling, Broken

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• I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

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• To be honest, I felt more myself with that haircut. I felt bold, and it felt empowering because it was my choice. It felt sexy too. Maybe it was the bare neck, but for some reason I felt super-, supersexy.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, Sexy, Kissing

  "The Bloom Of The Wallflower". Interview with Derek Blasberg, www.wonderlandmagazine.com. February 5, 2014.

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• In any case, the bayonet isn't as important as it used to be. It's more usual now to go into the attack with hand-grenades and your entrenching tool. The sharpened spade is a lighter and more versatile weapon - not only can you get a man under the chin, but more to the point, you can strike a blow with a lot more force behind it. That's especially true if you can bring it down diagonally between the neck and the shoulder, because then you can split down as far as the chest. When you put a bayonet in, it can stick, and you have to give the other man a hefty kick in the guts to get it out.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Blow, Men

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• There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Buddhist, Book

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• And to you taxpayers out there, let me say this: Make sure you file your tax return on time! And remember that, even though income taxes can be a 'pain in the neck,' the folks at the IRS are regular people just like you, except that they can destroy your life

  Dave Barry

  Pain, People, Return

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.114, Crown Archetype

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• Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational, Breathing, Unconscious

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.182, Anchor

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• 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

  Pulse, Males, Benches

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• One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.

  Edward Dorn

  Sleep, Writing, Sick

  Edward Dorn, Joseph Richey (2007). “Ed Dorn Live: Lectures, Interviews, and Outtakes”, p.41, University of Michigan Press

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• I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through a man's neck. Caravaggio gave all the feeling to the man. Apparently, he couldn't imagine a woman to have a single thought. I wanted to paint her thoughts, if such a thing were possible - determination and concentration and belief in the absolute necessity of the act. The fate of her people resting on her shoulders.

  Susan Vreeland

  Determination, Fate, Men

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• 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

  Men, House, May

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• You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

  Dorothea Lange

  Shoes, People, Cameras

  Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

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• Why don't we all just get a long-neck?

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Book, Beer, Long

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

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