Necks Quotes - Page 29

• I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.

  Seamus Heaney

  People, Albatross, Affliction

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• You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Destiny, Break, Throat

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2010

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• Oh, yeah, I like a high neck. And I like naked backs. It seems very sexy. Red carpets are about being a bit theatrical - having fun rather than being too safe. You have to be brave. Fashion is fun.

  Eva Green

  Sexy, Fashion, Fun

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• I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, People, Way

  "Kate Winslet: Your #1 Most Glam". Interview with Skip Hollandsworth, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.

  Sally Field

  Real, Opportunity, Play

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• I have a necklace around my neck that my lady gave me, so I try never to leave home without that.

  Chad Michael Murray

  Home, Trying, Necklaces

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• Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.

  Twiggy

  Covering, Elbows, Arms

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• I was a mod when I was a kid. I'd be in Italian pencil-leg trousers with those bowling shoes you wear outside and a Fred Perry polo shirt with a V-neck sweater. It was like an Essex uniform - a very specific look.

  Stephen Moyer

  Kids, Italian, Sweaters

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• I was very lucky. My neck hurt and I went to my doctor, who was kind of hip, and he said it was stress-caused and that I needed to learn how to meditate. So I learned how to do Transcendental Meditation.

  Rick Rubin

  Hurt, Stress, Doctors

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• I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do you think when Jesus comes back, he's really going to want to look at a cross?

  Bill Hicks

  Christian, Jesus, Nice

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• Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

  George Meredith

  Flower, Broken, Crocuses

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8374, Library of Alexandria

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• Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.

  Saddam Hussein

  Iraq, Victory, Strikes

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• Yield not thy neck
  To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind
  Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
  In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands
  that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Healing, Yield, Hands

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• Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what they like only as long as their bosses like what they say. They are free to produce what they want if their product remains within acceptable political boundaries. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when your stray that you feel the restraining tug.

  Michael Parenti

  Independent, Thinking, Media

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.150, City Lights Books

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• First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

  A. I. Bezzerides

  High Heels, Littles, Firsts

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• A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Benefits

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• ... 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

  Character, Murder Mysteries, Nineteen

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• In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Pain, Government

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• 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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