Necks Quotes - Page 35

• The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Real, Rocks, Risk

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• Neither logic nor scientific evidence supports such a belief. Although spinal manipulation can relieve certain types of back pain, neck pain, and other musculoskeletal symptoms, there is no scientific evidence that it can restore or maintain health. As a result of expressing my opinion on this subject, I have been called a chiropractic heretic.

  Samuel Homola

  Pain, Support, Manipulation

  Samuel Homola (1999). “Inside Chiropractic: A Patient's Guide”

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• Time in the heart and sequence in the brain--
  
  Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine.
  And let us then take godhead by the neck--
  And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.

  Conrad Aiken

  Time, Heart, Brain

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup
  And talk of the old country--mud and boards,
  Poverty,
  The snow falling down and necks of lovers.

  Louis Simpson

  Country, Fall, Grandmother

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.182, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order,
  Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
  The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
  With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.

  Louis MacNeice

  Son, Order, Poor

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

  Gus Van Sant

  Rose, Drug, Brain

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• The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.

  Alfred Doblin

  Believe, Republic

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• Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

  George Lucas

  Guy, Littles, Easy

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• Generation on generation, your neck rubbed the windowsill
  of the stall, smoothing the wood as the sea smooths glass.

  Donald Hall

  Horse, Glasses, Sea

  Donald Hall (1990). “Old and New Poems: Donald Hall”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Rock N Roll

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• Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck.

  Amy Poehler

  Vermont, Today, Dean

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• Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Taken, Son

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• The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

  John McGraw

  Boys, Desire, Talent

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• Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it's a less valid form of music. My answer now is that you either feel it or you don't. If metal doesn't give that overwhelming surge of power that make the hair stand up at the back of your neck, you might never get it, and you know what? That's okay, because judging by the 40,000 metalheads around me we're doing just fine without you.

  Sam Dunn

  Hair, Years, Giving

  "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out of town at all. Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home. ... Fear grows poor because it watches others gain wealth but cannot enter the fray; fear grows sick because it eats away at heath even as it fears its diminishment; fear grows old watching others live in ways that seem to threaten-but in reality only enhance-life.

  Gina Barreca

  Fear, Home, Reality

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• For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

  Thomas Huxley

  Reality, Sea, Weakness

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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• Marriage is rarely bliss
  But, surely it would be worse
  As particles to pelt
  At thousands of miles per sec
  About a universe
  In which a lover's kiss
  Would either not be felt
  Or break the loved one's neck.

  W. H. Auden

  Kissing, Would Be, Lovers

  "After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics". Poem by W. H. Auden, 1961.

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• However devoutly a girl may worship the man of her choice, there always comes a time when she feels an irresistible urge to haul off and let him have it in the neck.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Men, Choices

  "Joy in the Morning". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1947.

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• But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.

  William H. Gass

  Running, Eye, Mirrors

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• Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

  Charles Krauthammer

  Paralyzed

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• Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, School, Sunday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.307, Library of America

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• Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.

  Tertullian

  Eye, Ties, Yoke

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• I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Imagination, Trying

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• The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.

  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

  Air, Sky, Breathing

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• I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

  Corra May Harris

  Smart, Views, Stupidity

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