Top 84 Necks Up Quotes
#1. From the necks up ... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra.
Tera Lynn Childs
#2. Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.
Mike Huckabee
#3. A recently deceased American Zen master and navy veteran, John Daido Loori, used to say that those who think Buddhism is just about stillness end up sitting very silently up to their necks in their own shit.
Mark Epstein
#4. People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.
Teller
#5. Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.
Charlotte Bronte
#6. I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.
Hank Green
#7. Wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
Katharina Elisabeth Goethe
#8. Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.
Maya Angelou
#9. They took turns kissing necks and ears and stubbled chins. He had never found or expected gentleness from Tucker, but here it was, his for the asking. His even if he didn't know how to ask.
Josh Lanyon
#10. A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.
W.C. Fields
#11. Since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.
John Calvin
#12. Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis.
David Letterman
#13. We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.
Lee Krasner
#14. Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.
Ryan Reynolds
#15. I was always cutting my Barbie and Pollyanna dolls' hair. I lined them all up and put a cloth around their necks, like they were at the beauty parlor. Barbie was a real heartbreaker, but then all of a sudden, Barbie was freakin' bald. That was a shocker.
Cyndi Lauper
#16. What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.
Pat Williams
#17. I don't do much. I'm too lazy. That's my problem. Hang around my couch, watching the TV. Just too lazy. I realized this the other day, I get hit my a truck tomorrow - a big truck could hit me - paralyze me from the neck down. Wouldn't effect my lifestyle a bit really.
Norm MacDonald
#18. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin
#19. I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!
Roddy Piper
#20. I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.
Daphne Guinness
#21. We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.
Christopher Reeve
#22. That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.
Tom Watson
#23. You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.
Joanna Lumley
#24. I have seen giraffes in junglejims
their necks like love
wound around the iron circumstances
of the world.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#25. When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.
Hyman Rickover
#26. There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.
Thomas Gibson
#27. My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she met my grandfather - a British army officer. I remember as a child having bowls of chicken soup made by her. There were lots of interesting components, like feet and necks.
Jamie Cullum
#28. Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
Jimmy Page
#30. When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems.
Tom Hanks
#31. Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.
Clarence Thomas
#32. Genial, brutal parents, up to their necks in collusion, determined on the rightness of their choices, in everything. I could tell already that my birthday presents from Richard would always be something I didn't want.
Margaret Atwood
#33. At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.
Ernie Pyle
#34. She had softened at his concern for her, but his tone was back to being scathing. She deduced that his concern was not for her safety. Dealing with the dead bodies of guests who broke their necks tumbling down his staircase in too long skirts would have disturbed his schedule.
Anya Wylde
#35. I remember once reading that it is still not understood how the giraffe manages to pump an adequate blood supply all the way up to its head; but it is hard to imagine that anyone would conclude tht giraffes do not have long necks. At least not anyone who had ever been to a zoo
Robert Solow
#36. The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.
Benjamin Percy
#37. Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.
N.J. Berrill
#38. A pomegranate is filled with rubies when you open it up. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend - but not for me. I love rubies; they're great over necks, you know.
Lynda Resnick
#39. I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
Dorothea Lange
#40. said. "Life gets hard when a woman hits her mid to late 30s. I told you it's the Uglying Up years. The wrinkles come and the arm fat. The hangy-down thing on most necks.
Susan Reinhardt
#41. The lion's share of the problems that really bother us don't call for additional technology, theory, philosophy, or data (we're up to our necks in that); instead, the problems call for the ability to change what people do. And when it comes to this particular skill, demand far exceeds supply. Given
Kerry Patterson
#42. I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.
Lou Reed
#43. Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.
Brownie Wise
#44. The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.
Alfred Doblin
#45. All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.
Muddy Waters
#46. Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
J.P. Donleavy
#47. Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!
Jesse Duplantis
#48. We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.
Nora Ephron
#49. Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks.
David Wellington
#50. Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.
Michael Eric Dyson
#51. It is dark for archery,' said Gimli. 'Indeed it is time for sleep. Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could. Riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#52. American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.
Jackie Chan
#53. I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.
Donnie Lewis
#54. Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head.
J. Lynn
#55. I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
Fanny Fern
#56. Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
Caitlin Thomas
#57. Liberty," he continued, wrinkling his nose at the used condom that lay on the bottom flight of steps, toeing it to the side of the stairs with distaste. "Someone could slip on that. Break their necks," he muttered, interrupting himself. "Like a banana peel, only with bad taste and irony thrown in.
Neil Gaiman
#58. I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'
'Station! Station!
your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.
Brit Bennett
#61. 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
#62. May never glorious sun reflex his beams Upon the country where you make abode: But darkness and the gloomy shade of death Environ you, till mischief and despair Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!
William Shakespeare
#63. I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it!
Carl Panzram
#64. An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
Ursula Parrott
#65. I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
Sarah Grimke
#66. My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.
Hank Phillippi Ryan
#67. Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
Anne Lamott
#68. Their raspy kisses brand our jam tart necks, their treacherous miasma clasps our herbal thighs. Motherlessly we surrender, too many fathers we have, we, your daughters of joy.
Laura Gentile
#69. Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.
William Shakespeare
#70. Ethan, your father and I didn't break our necks to send you to private schools that taught you to say 'yep' instead of 'yes.
Kevin D. Patterson
#71. Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.
Barbara Johnson
#72. I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.
John Brown
#73. In the middle of the night she woke up dreaming of huge white heads like turnips, that came trailing after her, at the end of interminable necks, and with vast black eyes. But being a sensible woman, she subdued her terrors and turned over and went to sleep again.
H.G.Wells
#74. Far from a simple attempt to rid the nation of crime and drugs,
our policy against narcotics
like any public policy
comes with strings attached. And increasingly these strings
are constricting around the necks of Americans' lives and liberties.
Joel Miller
#75. When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.
John Redwood
#76. I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do
Mike Tyson
#77. The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.
St. Jerome
#78. See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
Orson Welles
#79. How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan
John Boyle O'Reilly
#80. According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at forty-three, and that's that ... The neck is a dead give-away. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.
Nora Ephron
#81. All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people wring the necks of fowls, and I thought it foul; and I wondered if I could ever exert any influence to help bring such unworthiness to an end.
Percy Grainger
#82. In the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
Ellen Glasgow
#83. 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
#84. Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it
Nigel Worthington
