Necks Quotes - Page 38

• On summer evenings, when every flower, and tree, and bird, might have better addressed my soft young heart, I have in my day been caught in the palm of a female hand by the crown, have been violently scrubbed from the neck to the roots of the hair as a purification for the Temple, and have then been carried off highly charged with saponaceous electricity, to be steamed like a potato in the unventilated breath of the powerful Boanerges Boiler and his congregation, until what small mind I had, was quite steamed out of me

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Summer, Powerful

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.57

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• The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Revenge, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.60

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• A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike us as indecent ... The text is one of the components of an artistic work, albeit an extremely important component ... But the artistic effect as a whole arises from comparisons of the text with a complex set of ontological and ideological esthetic ideas.

  Yuri Lotman

  Ideas, Ties, Museums

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• If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

  Chi McBride

  Issues, Race, Play

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• We can't all be stars; we can't all be leaders. We are all God's creatures, living life, and we have that God light in us and we're supposed to let it shine. And not everybody wants to be like me and stick their neck out to get up on stage and perform. There are those like me, but there are also those that are of a shyer nature. And they're smarter than most of us that are out there showing our asses.

  Dolly Parton

  Stars, Live Life, Light

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• It starts with water. The kid who doesn't get to go to school because he's looking for water around his neck of the woods, that kid doesn't learn about HIV and then dies from AIDS. Or cholera or whatever. It all links back.

  Kenna

  School, Kids, Water

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The belief in supernatural forces remains to this day a yoke on the neck of humanity, but at least Thales made it possible, for those of us who wish it, to be free of that yoke.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Supernatural Forces, Humanity, Wish

  Victor J. Stenger (1990). “Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses”

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• I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Hunting, Vices

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

  St. Jerome

  World, Obstinacy, Collapse

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• 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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