Necked Quotes

#1. You stiff-necked fool," he muttered, "too proud to listen. Can you eat pride, Stark? Will honor shield your children?

George R R Martin

#2. Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Herman Melville

#3. So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

Mose Allison

#4. The well-meaning woman was in fact possessed by two devils--the one the stiff-necked devil of pride, the other the condescending devil of benevolence. She was kind, but she must have credit for it

George MacDonald

#5. Blind with love, my daughter
has cried nightly for horses,
those long-necked marchers and churners
that she has mastered, any and all,
reigning them in like a circus hand ...

Anne Sexton

#6. Some people are so stiff-necked that they cannot think any other way than their own preconceived ideas.

Suman Pokhrel

#7. The daisies and buttercups nodded in the breeze, like skinny-necked old ladies listening to dance music.

What if necessary evil had an opposite? This is what it would be. This unnecessary good.

For the first time in days, Mo smiled.

Tricia Springstubb

#8. Dear Artie: "The young fellow has disappeared into a dead end. I think the long-necked bastard planned to wind up in Paris and sent him there but he may also have used the underground railroad. Ask your round-heeled contact. Maybe you can find more than I could. "Roy

John Pearce

#9. She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children. She was never embarrassed, and her anger, though never permitted to be visible, made itself felt the more.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. Simply stated, the value of a business today is the sum of all the money it will make in the future.

Peter Thiel

#11. He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.

Stefan Bachmann

#12. In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a "free" economy.

Gunnar Myrdal

#13. If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. You don't like the idea of another female marking me? Then leave your brand there, warn them off. Show them who I belong to.

Suzanne Wright

#15. Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes.

Romulus Whitaker

#16. I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.

Willard R. Espy

#17. Medication can make a bad situation tolerable and mask the need for change.

Julie Holland

#18. Clothes have special power. I'll always remember the raspberry colored v-necked silk sweater I was wearing on my husband and my first date. If I hadn't been wearing that sweater that night, would any of it have happened?

Delia Ephron

#19. And if you must sacrifice yourself, do that by marrying me. I'm not an easy man. You'll earn your martyr's crown before you're done. Don't condemn both of us to an eternity of unhappiness just because you're too stiff-necked to face society's censure.

Anna Campbell

#20. Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

Martin Heidegger

#21. Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

Bob Marley

#22. The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.

Sharon Kay Penman

#23. I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.

Tom Petty

#24. A peaceful river attracts many people; similarly a person experiencing peaceful emotions catches the attention of others.

Hina Hashmi

#25. Some of us are afraid of getting too emotional when we sing. But the problem isn't emotions. It's emotionalism. Emotionalism pursues feelings as ends in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard for how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.

John Piper

#26. The Grace Hotel in Sukhumvit had been a magnet for tarts, double-bent cops, single-trippers, sub-orbital space cadets and those spring-necked noddies who spent their waking hours peering into the dark side of the spoon.

David McMillan

#27. As with narrow-necked bottles; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring out.

Alexander Pope

#28. The pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...

Anais Nin

#29. Does the beauty of life remain alive without making a comparison?

Suman Pokhrel

#30. Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!

Fred Phelps

#31. When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious
they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#32. A shoe-shaped bath tub, within which I felt like Marat but with no white-necked maiden to stab me.

Vladimir Nabokov

#33. I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

Hugh Masekela

#34. The eggs were extremely interesting, as was the bacon,and the hydrangeas outside the window were absolutely fascinating. hydrangeas.who would have imagined?

Julia Quinn