Quotes About Long Necks

#1. 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

#2. Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.

Lillian Bassman

#3. There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.

John C. Calhoun

#4. I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've never seen. It's these two things I'm striving for.

Kim Jee-woon

#5. Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. The first generation from the '50s that were in 1650 [Broadway] were pretty much all crooks, I mean just out and out crooks. And the next generation had a little more finesse. But I mean those first wave of people, you know, definitely would take all your money, no doubt about it.

Al Kooper

#7. I should have known that if any girl was going to disobey an order, it would be you.

Kiera Cass

#8. I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.

Mark McKinnon

#9. We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

Catherine Of Genoa

#10. If we don't get a good day's work out of you, we'll maroon you.
He ignored Barnaby's raised eyebrow. They'd never marooned anybody before, even the English nobles they hated, but Gideon meant to put the fear of God into the man.

Sabrina Jeffries

#11. For many miles on either side of the river's oozy bed is a pale desert of gigantic water-lilies. They sigh one unto the other in that solitude, and stretch towards the heaven their long and ghastly necks, and nod to and fro their everlasting heads.

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that makes it.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

Lance Armstrong

#14. When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.

Craig Brown

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

Coco Chanel

#16. Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks.

Colum McCann

#17. And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.

Christo

#18. With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

Marlon Brando

#19. I have a tiny infant of an idea, much too frail and defenseless to risk describing, even to you ... I am going to coddle it and feed it and see if I can make it grow.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#20. 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

#21. I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions of people and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannot connect with them in my normal, everyday life.

Delroy Lindo

#22. Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.

Denis Waitley