Necks Quotes - Page 25

• I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Zoos, Guitar, One Day

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• Yes, I will spend the livelong day
  With Nature in this month of May;
  And sit beneath the trees, and share
  My bread with birds whose homes are there;
  While cows lie down to eat, and sheep
  Stand to their necks in grass so deep;
  While birds do sing with all their might,
  As though they felt the earth in flight.

  W. H. Davies

  Lying, Home, Sheep

  William Henry Davies, “In May”

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• God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

  Stephen King

  Dark Tower, Dark Tower Series

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Bending, Yoke, Bows

  Elisabeth Elliot (1989). “On Asking God why”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

  Kathleen Hanna

  And Love, Boots, Peace And Love

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• Protect yourself from Muslim vampires by making your neck non-halal.

  Stephen Colbert

  Vampire, Halal, Protect

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• Grab this day by the neck and kiss it.

  Bill Murray

  Kissing, This Day

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• Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

  Ann Patchett

  Running, Kindness, People

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• In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Animal, Two, Mistress

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.244, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the house. And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way she wants to.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Men, House, Want

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• I saw a giraffe with a short neck
  That was sad
  Or a deer

  Bo Burnham

  Deer, Saws, Giraffe

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• It's nice to see some youth running around and not see achy backs and necks and arms, ... It's nice to see some young guys feeling spry.

  Trevor Hoffman

  Running, Nice, Guy

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• A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.

  Julie Murphy

  Girl, Blow, Bird

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• Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Men, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (1932). “The Complete Works of the Swami Vivekananda, Comprising All His Lectures, Addresses and Discourses Delivered in Europe, America and India: All His Writings in Prose and Poetry, Together with Translations of Those Written in Bengali and Sanskrit; Reports of His Interviews and His Replies to the Various Addresses of Welcome; His Sayings and Epistles,--private and Public--original and Translated; with an Index; Carefully Revised & Edited”

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• You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

  Walt Whitman

  Bending, Sides, Rowing

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.80, Bantam Classics

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• Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

  James Bryant Conant

  Turtles, Progress, Sticks

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• The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms itself through television... I thought it would be interesting to copy the same language. large color pictures are framed in heavy wooden frames with golden plates and hung slightly higher than normal. So viewers get a sore neck watching these events, this is also the case when looking at paintings of saints in cathedrals.

  Carl De Keyzer

  Inspiration, Color, Cnn

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• 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

  Over You, Photographer, Realizing

  Dorothea Lange, Keith F. Davis, Kelle A. Botkin (1995). “The photographs of Dorothea Lange”, Harry N. Abrams

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• What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Practice, People

  "On Christian Doctrine". Book by Saint Augustine, 426 AD.

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• He just got his neck broke one time, I'm not tryna break his neck again, that's not what I fight for. I fight to have fun, not to hurt nobody.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Hurt, Fun, Motivation

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• Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Rain, Thinking, People

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.189, A&C Black

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• Seeing your mother naked is not something you easily recover from. Seeing your mother naked and jumping from one side of a king-sized bed to the other with a nurse's hat on while your father, who is also naked, is chasing her with a bandanna around his neck, is reason to put yourself up for adoption.

  Chelsea Handler

  Mother, Kings, Father

  Chelsea Handler (2005). “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands”, p.2, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

  Oswald Chambers

  Laziness, Shakes

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.224, Discovery House

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• Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!

  Jesse Duplantis

  Feet, Devil, Results

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• Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  Solomon

  Kindness, Writing, Heart

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