Necks Quotes - Page 31

• I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.

  Channing Tatum

  Football, Roles, Lawyer

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Many women hear the word "feminine" and feel like it's a noose around their neck. "Don't hold me to a mode of behavior because I'm a woman and you think this is how a woman should act," kind of thing.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thinking, Kind, Behavior

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace.

  George Eliot

  Moving, Lovely, Arms

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

  Stephen King

  Pride, Bones, Invisible

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• East, to the dawn, or west or south or north!
  Loose rein upon the neck of - and forth!

  Richard Hovey

  Fate, Dawn, East

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?" The bishop thought it need not be, if encountered in the proper spirit, but he gave a lot of enlightening examples of conditions under which it might be, in his word, "inflammatory." There wasn't much nudity in our neck of the woods, and I enjoyed that article tremendously.

  Robertson Davies

  Bishops, Might, Woods

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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• Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.

  Will Cuppy

  Writing, Lions, Bones

  "The Lion". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

  Clement Attlee

  Sleep, Garden, Wife

  "Memoirs 1916-1964: The Making of a Prime Minister" by Harold Wilson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Michael Joseph, London, (p. 121), 1986.

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• When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health!

  Leonid Andreyev

  Death, Men, Rope

  Leonid Andreyev (1922). “He who Gets Slapped: A Play in Four Acts”

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• In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching ever higher for food is, like so many Darwinian explanations of its kind, little more than a post hoc speculation." Hitching is quite correct, but he rebuts a fairy story that Darwin was far too smart to tell - even though the tale later entered our high school texts as a "classic case" nonetheless.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Smart, Book, School

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• I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

  Charles Lamb

  Wall, Tired, Air

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Men, Pockets, Lord

  Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour”, p.197

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• Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

  William Cobbett

  United States, Ribs, Body

  William Cobbett (1933). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”

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• My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round my neck, he would have complained about how humiliating it was for him to spring the trapdoor. And then, once I was swinging in the wind, he would blame my ghost for having obliged him to murder, thereby imposing a guilt trip on a sweet, self-effacing, downtrodden Francophone.

  Mordecai Richler

  Sweet, Spring, Self

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• When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Too Late, Youth

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• A lotta Christians wear crosses 'round their necks; do you think if Jesus comes back he ever wants to see another cross?

  Bill Hicks

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the end of America. It's a free market and you just put it on. The fact that science has not been on neck-and-neck with it means that people believe science could not compete on that level.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Mean, Reality

  Source: collider.com

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• Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

  Robert Jordan

  Spears, Collars, Happenings

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1869, Macmillan

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• I went to an all-girls Catholic school. And all the nuns just breathed down our necks "abstinence." And that's not the right thing to do. It does not work. Kids will not listen to that. They're going to experiment no matter what, so you have to be honest. You have to say, "You know what, if you're gonna do it, at least think about the consequences and get protection.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Girl, School, Kids

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• We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two.

  L. Neil Smith

  Party, Two, Differences

  "Catching Up with L. Neil Smith". Interview with Ari Armstrong, www.freecolorado.com. December 07, 2006.

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• When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Men, Tyrants, Feet

  Speech fragment, 1794.

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• Free men stick their necks out.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Sticks, Free Man

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dog, Father, Cutting

  FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013

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• In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck.

  John Carroll

  Children, Intention, Vocation

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.27, Taylor & Francis

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• It's so much easier to beat your breast than to stick your neck out.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Sticks, Easier, Beats

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.18, Westminster John Knox Press

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