Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Krauthammer

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Djuna Barnes

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.

David Mitchell

Who was blowing on the nape of my neck.

C. S. Lewis

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint.

Janice Dickinson

I can wrap my legs around my neck.

Brooke Burns

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

Albert Einstein

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

Robert Altman

I like audiences to crane their necks.

Robert A. Heinlein

A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright.

Stephen Moyer

If my missus is there and she approves of the person I get to bite boobs - and necks.

Stephen King

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

Stanley Baldwin

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

Sloane Crosley

Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. You get over it, of course. Everyone was right about that. One mathematically insignificant day, you stop hoping for happiness and become actually happy.

Matthew Perry

I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.

Patricia Briggs

He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.

Patsy Kensit

I do have cellulite. I have it everywhere. From the neck down!

Cassandra Clare

She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.

Germaine Greer

A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck.

Jamaica Kincaid

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

Oswald Chambers

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

Julia Quinn

Caroline, do you value your neck?" "Yes, I'm rather fond of it. Why?" "Because if you don't shut up, I'm going to wring it.

Eli Wallach

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

Khaled Hosseini

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Larry Flynt

I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.

John Brown

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders.

John Flanagan

Shut up, Axl!" he whispered fiercly. "If you want to break your neck, do it quietly or I'll break it for you.

Lee Krasner

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.

Rainbow Rowell

She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.

Paul Verlaine

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

Karen Morley

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.

Sandra Bullock

I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.