Necks Quotations | Page 3

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.

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

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

I watched his fingers clench and unclench, and I wondered if he was dreaming that they were wrapped around my neck.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled myself closer to him until my lips touched his.

Protect yourself from Muslim vampires by making your neck non-halal.

Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. I didn't care that we were out in public. I didn't care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.

My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept going until he reached the bottom of the dress’s V-neck. I let out a small gasp, and he kissed all around the neckline, just enough to tease.

Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.

You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again." ~ Nynaeve

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.

Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.

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

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.

[Footnote:] 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.

For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion.

Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.

I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person’s neck that says ‘Make me feel important,

Follow only beauty and obey only love.

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers...

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.

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

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.