Necks Quotes - Page 6

• My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

  Charles R. Morris

  Writing, Perspective, West

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a healthy hobby I think. I can do a few tricks, I can hoop from my neck and shoulders, and I can do a few moves, a few tricks! I can walk through the hoop whilst it's spinning. I feel like there's definitely an interest in promoting the hula-hoop as an important pastime!

  Sufjan Stevens

  Moving, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Dog, Play, Parent

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• I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

  Zach Condon

  Pain, Guitar, Bridges

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• Mine would be Your Song, which is just one of his ones that I... I was actually glad the whole song wasn't played in this film and it's just a few bars of it because it makes me cry. You know, there are some songs that just make the hairs on the back of your neck just stand up? That's one of those for me - I put it on if I want a good cry.

  Ashley Jensen

  Song, Hair, Bars

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Eggs, Exhibitions

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• The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

  John Carlos

  Country, Olympics, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not really in a hurry to ever wear a neck brace. That's why I'm kind of positive about it, because I'm healthy.

  Prince Fielder

  Healthy, Kind, Braces

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• As a Christian when I watched the people in Katrina they lost everything. I'm not just speaking about the Black people, I'm talking about White, Chinese, Oriental, whoever lost stuff. My heart went out to 'em. I said as a Christian it would be a sin before God for me to wear my gold around people, flashing it in their face and they don't have nothing. So I said never again would I wear my gold, I want people to know I have a heart of gold and not the gold around my neck.

  Mr. T

  Christian, Heart, Talking

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak.

  Sylvia Plath

  Hate, Speak, Silent

  Sylvia Plath (2017). “Winter Trees”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.

  John Green

  Morning, Stars, Real

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.78, A&C Black

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• I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my neck, say, or my knee – and I’d carry on reading, I might let a smile, no more, wouldn’t lose my place on the page. It would be pleasant to come to that. We’d come so close, do you see, that I wouldn’t be surprised out of myself every time you touched.

  Jamie O'Neill

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

  Sylvia Plath

  Thinking, Turkeys, Bell Jar

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Car, Afternoon, Painful

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2009). “Guilty Pleasures”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• Half delirious, I slipped my hands around Whit's thick neck. The second Idid he got confident.His mouth moved over mine in a rough, unpracticed, awkward back-and-forth motion, so fast it was as if he was trying to create fire with our lips.

  Kate Brian

  Fire, Hands, Awkward

  Kate Brian (2012). “Invitation Only: A Private novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

  Dana Stabenow

  Mean, Idaho, Alaska

  Dana Stabenow (2011). “Play with Fire”, p.99, Gere Donovan Press

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• Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Trying, Typical, Break

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• As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Eye, Moon, Feet

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2016). “Tarzan of the Apes: free audiobook included”, p.48, Wizio Publishing

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• He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

  Cornelia Funke

  Father, Stories, Ears

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• My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

  Warren Ellis

  Writing, Focus, Etc

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• Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

  Christopher Paolini

  Dark, Trying, Scare

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• Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every tendon sharply sketched; A bearded mouth talks silently To someone no one else can see. Sixty years ago they smiled At lover, husband, first-born child. Smiles are for youth. For old age come Death's terror and delirium.

  Philip Larkin

  Children, Husband, Lying

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• I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Teacher, Zebras

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

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• If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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