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  • I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks. -- Kurt Cobain
  • Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. -- Khalil Gibran
  • I stick my neck out for nobody. -- Humphrey Bogart
  • I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -- Emma Goldman
  • Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak. -- Maria Sharapova
  • I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. -- Steve Martin
  • All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter. -- Darrell Royal
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  • I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in. -- Julius J. Epstein
  • Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out. -- Sid Waddell
  • I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida. -- Scott Putesky
  • Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. -- Eli Wallach
  • The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck. -- Roland Joffe
  • He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. -- Robert Herrick
  • The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand. -- William Cavendish
  • After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. -- Djuna Barnes
  • I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too. -- Lee Ryan
  • At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life. -- Ernie Pyle
  • Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. -- Horace Walpole
  • Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. -- John Steinbeck
  • If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. -- Lenny Bruce
  • Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. -- Mary Kay Ash
  • If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down. -- Jimmy Doolittle
  • The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. -- Edna Ferber
  • If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. -- Robert Fulghum
  • 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
  • It's interesting to fantasize having a man sink his teeth into your neck for sustenance, knowing that it isn't going to be terribly painful but rather very exciting -- Frank Langella
  • About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting. -- Terry Kath
  • I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars. -- Ralph Lauren
  • Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.. -- Charles Jaffe
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. -- Mary Kay Ash
  • They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible. -- Eric Clapton
  • Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck. -- Daisy Donovan
  • 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
  • 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
  • As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? -- John Trumbull
  • 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
  • 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
  • I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more. -- Herschel Walker
  • The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people. -- Tony Judt
  • 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
  • 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
  • Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. -- Eric Clapton
  • 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
  • I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations. -- Peter Baynham
  • A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. -- Camille Paglia
  • Free men stick their necks out. -- Bernard Crick
  • No broken hearts, no broken necks. -- Keith Richards
  • I like audiences to crane their necks. -- Robert Altman
  • We all look good for our age. Except for our necks. -- Nora Ephron
  • Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks. -- Joyce Meyer
  • Kickin', ass takin' names, cashing checks, and breakin necks, the champ is here. -- John Cena
  • Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. -- Maya Angelou
  • He had forgotten they lived with a rope around their necks - until it cinched. -- E.J. Koh
  • Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you. -- Saddam Hussein
  • Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks -- Stephen King
  • Broken necks, splattered patellas, severed arteries: These are the things from which dreams are made of. -- Road Warrior Hawk
  • That's one of the things you get when you're playing golf. You get bad backs, bad necks. -- Tom Watson
  • Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks. -- C. S. Lewis
  • From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax. -- Christopher Paolini
  • The United States is like Count Dracula who at six o'clock in the morning has not sucked [any necks]. -- Hugo Chavez
  • If my missus is there and she approves of the person I get to bite boobs - and necks. -- Stephen Moyer
  • Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing. -- Jackie Chan
  • Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth. -- A. A. Milne
  • A lotta Christians wear crosses 'round their necks; do you think if Jesus comes back he ever wants to see another cross? -- Bill Hicks
  • We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet. -- Cynthia Heimel
  • In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren't. Searching. -- Francesca Lia Block
  • Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. -- Khalil Gibran
  • True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges! -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • 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
  • 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
  • It's nice to see some youth running around and not see achy backs and necks and arms, ... It's nice to see some young guys feeling spry. -- Trevor Hoffman
  • I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. -- John Milton
  • In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers. -- Louis Simpson
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke. -- Elisabeth Elliot
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale. -- A. Lynn
  • Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break. -- Janet Evanovich
  • For us who choose our dreams over our love the only thing we can do for love is perhaps to release the lock around our necks. Through that, the pain may vanish. -- Ai Yazawa
  • Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk. -- Harold Payson
  • 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
  • The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls. -- Jean Paul
  • The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing. -- Lillian Bassman
  • I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks. -- Seamus Heaney
  • 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
  • I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it. -- Christopher Eccleston
  • I love to smoke. I love to eat red meat. I'll only eat red meat that comes from cows who smoke, ok!? Special cows they grow in Virginia with voice boxes in their necks. "Moo" -- Denis Leary
  • Why are we designed to see the world as supremely beautiful just as we're about to be snuffed? Do rabbits feel the same as the fox teeth bite down on their necks? Is it mercy? -- Margaret Atwood
  • 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
  • No matter that we could be beheaded for this, said EsaHeads are overrated.Yes, they are so unfashionable, said Miri, imitating an Aslandian accentThis spring, ladies of style are wearing their feathers in their necks. -- Shannon Hale
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