Quotes and Sayings About Necks
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Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.
-- Albert Einstein -
I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
-- Alexei Sayle -
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
-- Alice Hoffman -
On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
-- Amy Lowell -
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
-- Andrew Pyper -
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
-- Anne Boleyn -
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.
-- Anne Lamott -
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.
-- Barbara Johnson -
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't
-- Baroness Orczy -
He nuzzles my neck affectionately. "I love you. I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
-- Bo Burnham -
Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?
-- Brandon Mull -
I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.
-- Brooke Burns -
Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.
-- Brownie Wise -
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it!
-- Carl Panzram -
I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football.
-- Channing Tatum -
Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.
-- Charles le Gai Eaton -
The most common way to identify a soldier is by the disc around his neck. But these were made of compressed cardboard and so they've all but disappeared.
-- Chris Roberts -
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 -
We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
-- Cristina Saralegui -
Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
-- Dashiell Hammett -
At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.
-- Dirk Benedict -
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
-- Djuna Barnes -
I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.
-- Donnie Lewis -
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
