Necks Quotes - Page 27

• It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

  Ice Cube

  Funny, Thinking, Feet

  "Biography: Ice Cube". www.cnn.com. December 15, 2006.

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• Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Girl, Women, Feelings

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Mean, Forget, Significant

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• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Monsters, Elbows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.175

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• My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mother, Cranes, Ability

  Gary Shteyngart (2014). “Little Failure: A Memoir”, p.45, Random House

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• I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck [mimics it again] I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Years, Smoking

  "Sane Man". Stand-up show, 1989.

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• Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

  Claud Cockburn

  Success, Dog, Fall

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

  Coolio

  Food, People, Cooking

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• A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

  Marie Corelli

  Morning, Hunting, Bird

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• When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Rivers, Giving, Water

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• Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying mantis behind it. The mantis arches up its front leg to stab the cicada, but it doesn't know an oriole perches behind it. The bird stretches out its neck to snap up the mantis for a midday meal, but its unaware of the boy who's come into the garden with a net. Three creatures—the cicada, the mantis and the oriole—all coveted gains without being aware of the greater and inescapable danger that was coming.

  Lisa See

  Boys, Garden, Praying Mantis

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• Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena.

  Robert Byrd

  Mistake, Ku Klux Klan, Political

  "Dems Need to Houseclean" by Deroy Murdock, www.nationalreview.com. January 6, 2003.

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• I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!

  Roddy Piper

  Wwe, Diapers, Red

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• When you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain.

  Brad Meltzer

  Pain, Fear, Real

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• I need someone to fold the sheet, someone to take the other end of the sheet and walk towards me and fold once , then step back , fold and walk towards me again .We all need someone to fold the sheet.Someone to hitch on the coat at the neck .Someone to put on the kettle. Someone to dry up while I wash.

  Roger Deakin

  Dry Up, Needs, Coats

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• I like tattoos. I'm gonna be covered. I'm not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it's my least favorite place.

  Mac Miller

  Tattoo, Favorite Places, Faces

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• 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

  Support Systems, Sticks, Staff

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• Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.

  Danny Baker

  Soccer, Football, Fashion

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• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Simple, Sweaters, Clothes

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• I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Talking, Boxing

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• Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.

  Joel Achenbach

  Disappointment, Thinking, Earthquakes

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• Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Children, Moving

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

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• Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Self, Surveys

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.59

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• Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

  William Shakespeare

  Yield, Mind, Triumph

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.504

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• Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Agony

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language Supplement 2”, p.563, Knopf

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