Necks Quotes - Page 30

• The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

  Aaron Stanford

  Jobs, Son, Hands

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• I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

  Ray Charles

  Faith, Teenager, Motorcycle

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.35, Da Capo Press

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• You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

  James Agee

  Fall, Justice, Risk

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.115, Penguin

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• Chiropractic care is the only real, long-lasting relief that I have found for my neck pain due to an old injury.

  James Arness

  Pain, Real, Chiropractic Care

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• Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it

  Will Rogers

  Fun, Inspiration, Rope

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• A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted, a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.

  Will Rogers

  Real, Men, Land

  Will Rogers (1983). “"How to be funny" & other writings of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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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. Man is thus metamorphosed into a thing, into many things. The planter, who is Man sent out into the field to gather food, is seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Land, Ideas

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

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• The Psblurtex is an 18-inch long anaconda that hides in the gentlemen's outfitting departments of Amazonian stores and is often bought by mistake since its colors are those of the London Reform Club. Once tied around its victim's neck, it strangles him gently and then claims the insurance before running off to Germany where it lives in hiding.

  Mike Harding

  Running, Mistake, Humorous

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• College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Football, Humorous, Loss

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• What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?

  Selima Hill

  Dream, Moving, Writing

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• You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

  Ian Dunbar

  Dog, Giving, Training

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• It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.

  Sudhir Kakar

  Dark, Swimming, Men

  Sudhir Kakar (2008). “The Seeker: A Novel”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Men, Dragons

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

  Bill Vaughan

  Believe, Fleas, Giraffe

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• The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us, those who love righteousness, to jump on the necks of the wicked. We prefer to have it attended to in a more dignified, impersonal way by Society as a whole.

  Gerald Stanley Lee

  Ideas, Evil, Wicked

  Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy”

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• Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

  Anna Olson

  Turtles, Progress, Needs

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• Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
  our policy against narcotics -- like any public policy --
  comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
  are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.

  Joel Miller

  Simple, Strings Attached, Drug

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• When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Wise, Long, Soul

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• But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

  Alistair Cooke

  Rain, Sunset, Winning

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

  Germaine Greer

  Bosoms

  1970 The Female Eunuch,'Body: Curves'.

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• A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Women, Heaven, Good Woman

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems to me that that which is given us by nature for our own preservation ought to be worn round the neck as a pendant and in the hat for a medal.

  Pietro Aretino

  Men, Evil, Hats

  "Pietro Aretino, the scourge of princes" by Edward Hutton, (p. 65), 1922.

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• The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.

  Evan Esar

  Amputation, Way, Bragging

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• You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.

  Pete Wentz

  Running, Long, People

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• We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

  Chinua Achebe

  Hurt, Men, May

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.12, Anchor

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