Top 100 Quotes About Necks
#1. An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.
Ursula Parrott
#2. I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it!
Carl Panzram
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
Caitlin Thomas
#10. The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.
Alfred Doblin
#11. Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head.
J. Lynn
#12. I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.
Donnie Lewis
#13. American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.
Jackie Chan
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.
Nora Ephron
#18. Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!
Jesse Duplantis
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Neither team has really taken the baton by the scruff of the neck and put their stamp on it
Nigel Worthington
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.
St. Jerome
#30. Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.
Douglas Rushkoff
#31. 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
#32. I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.
Sarah Grimke
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.
Barbara Johnson
#37. 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
#38. Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.
William Shakespeare
#39. 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
#40. Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
Anne Lamott
#41. My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.
Hank Phillippi Ryan
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks.
Tom Watson
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash!
Roddy Piper
#48. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
Steve Martin
#49. 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
#50. What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.
Pat Williams
#51. 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
#52. Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.
Ryan Reynolds
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.
W.C. Fields
#57. 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
#58. Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.
Maya Angelou
#59. 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
#60. I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.
Hank Green
#61. Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you.
Charlotte Bronte
#62. 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
#63. I'll see a beautiful dress in a shop, and then I'll put it on and it looks dreadful because I'm just too curvy. I have to choose carefully - I steer clear of high necks and go for tailored, fitted things.
Sarah Parish
#64. A lotta Christians wear crosses 'round their necks; do you think if Jesus comes back he ever wants to see another cross?
Bill Hicks
#65. I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.
Louis MacNeice
#66. The bells which toll for mankind are - most of them, anyway - like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.
Peter Medawar
#67. Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of.
Road Warrior Hawk
#68. What was a kiss without a kiss?
It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, everything jumbled against everything else in just a few chaotic moments. Fingers in hair. Hands cupping necks. Mouths dragged on cheeks and chins in dangerous proximity.
Maggie Stiefvater
#69. 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
#70. I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.
Jamaica Kincaid
#71. I don't like people feeling like they've been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.
Brian Chippendale
#72. No matter that we could be beheaded for this," said Esa. "Heads are overrated."
"Yes, they are so unfashionable," said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accent. "This spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks.
Shannon Hale
#73. A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!
Marie Corelli
#74. The Alexander Technique works ... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.
Roald Dahl
#75. 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
#76. Julian dipped his head to her ear where he nuzzled her neck. "I will love you forever," he whispered.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#78. [When to have a facelift:] If you're tripping over your neck.
Phyllis Diller
#79. Looked around for Grandma, spotting her and Dougie hiding behind a car on the opposite side of the street. They were wearing Super Suits and they had bath towels pinned around their necks like capes.
Janet Evanovich
#80. I'm very involved with Pilates as well; you have to be careful. I can't do headstands any more, I have a neck and a spinal problem, but I used to do it.
Donna Karan
#81. Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks.
Colum McCann
#82. I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.
Channing Tatum
#83. Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
Coco Chanel
#84. Century after century, we have prosecuted our insane conflicts from atop their backs, resting on their sturdy necks when we grew weary, eating their flesh when we were starving, disemboweling them and crawling inside their bodies when we were freezing.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#85. Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
George Meredith
#86. Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.
Tertullian
#87. Okay, so we're in Georgia. I can do this. I'm not just the new girl. I'm a vampire. I don't have to be afraid of mean girls and gossip anymore. I could snap their necks in half - er, not that I will or anything, but it's nice to know that I can.
Tamara Summers
#88. I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do you think when Jesus comes back, he's really going to want to look at a cross?
Bill Hicks
#89. If you're driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.
Baron Vaughn
#90. Those who lift trophies of success are those who do what they do without stretching their necks to see "who else is doing what?
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.
Epicurus
#92. The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.
John McGraw
#93. Then Kotick roared to the seals: I've done my best for you these five seasons past. I've found you the island where you'll be safe, but unless your heads are dragged off your silly necks you won't believe. I'm going to teach you now. Look out for yourselves!
Rudyard Kipling
#94. I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.
Kinky Friedman
#95. You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it!
Nikki Glaser
#96. Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.
Bill Maher
#97. I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks ... you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?
Bill Hicks
#98. If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.
Will.i.am
#99. Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.
Ellen DeGeneres
#100. I hear from so many women who really started to pay attention to it at all times and stopped, you know, touching their faces and necks and playing with their hair and twisting their legs. I think women become more aware of it when they learn about this stuff, and you see their body language change.
Amy Cuddy
