Put your backbone where your wishbone is. — Vikram Seth
The neck is kind of what's sexy in Japan, so you have to have the kimono a little bit back. It was just a whole different way of appealing to what was sexy. — Sayings
Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out. — Sid Waddell
A turtleneck is about sophistication. — Dwyane Wade
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender — Anne Boleyn
Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down. — Mitch Hedberg
Always watch your back - when I was fourteen I got a tattoo of an eye on the back of my neck, so I could say I was always watchin' my back. — Gucci Mane
Short Neck Quotes
Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming. — Benjamin Franklin
I saw a giraffe with a short neck
That was sad
Or a deer — Bo Burnham
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. — C. S. Lewis
The wolf has a thick neck because he does his job on his own. — Bulgarian Proverbs
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose — Elena Ferrante
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? — George Eliot
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. — Emma Goldman
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. — John Steinbeck
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. — James B. Conant
Neck Image Quotes
Turtleneck Quotes
I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. — Johnny Depp
My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. — Moon Unit Zappa
As a young girl, I was much more preoccupied by my flaws. Everyone teased me because of my long, skinny neck. To hide my so-called deformity, I was wearing a turtleneck when I was 3! Yet my neck is probably my best asset. At the end of the day, what counts is the entire package. — Iman Abdulmajid
Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles. — Jordan Sonnenblick
I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might. — Norman Foster
Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles. — Doris Lilly
I was wearing my best Gap turtleneck and my dates were two adult lesbians, so yea, I was pretty cool. — Tina Fey
You never see anyone wearing a black turtleneck and leather jacket doing something nice. — Daniel Tosh
In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again. — Emo Philips
I have enough to last for the rest of my life. — Steve Jobs
Beautiful Neck Quotes
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. — Kahlil Gibran
Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face. — Vidal Sassoon
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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
He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck. — Tove Jansson
The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace. — George Eliot
A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work. — Anthony Trollope
I love Dior. I've been wearing some of the really beautiful structured pieces - I love a deep neck and how it accentuates a woman in that area. And, of course, Louis Vuitton. I've honestly never met someone like Nicolas. He has a really fresh perspective on life in general. — Selena Gomez
Sexy is a girl who's comfortable with herself. Long legs are beautiful... and also a nice neck. — Scott Speedman
My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye! — Caroline Norton
Stiff Neck Quotes
When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight. — Hildegard of Bingen
Going down on a woman gives me a stiff neck, going down on a man gives me lockjaw and conventional sex gives me claustrophobia. — Tallulah Bankhead
Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins! — Fred Phelps
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
I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the others give me a stiff neck or lockjaw. — Tallulah Bankhead
Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff. — Stephen King
Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body. Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet. — John Burroughs
If a bunch of Republicans are too stiff- necked, too proud, or in some cases too committed to the old order, after the election, I think they're going to be very sobered by their position. — Newt Gingrich
Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity. — Bob Marley
Necklace Quotes
Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a hard-core communist mass bomber. His wife says her favorite thing to do is hang tires over children's heads and necklace them. — Alex Jones
Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless,
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace! — Ludacris
Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic. — Molly Sims
It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets. — Ines de La Fressange
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets. — Susanna Clarke
I love jewelry - rings, earrings, bracelets, necklaces, you name it. — Sofia Vergara
A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much. — Tracy Reese
Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone. — Ashley Madekwe
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon. — John Calvin
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
When God moves, everybody will be blessed. If something is of the flesh, everybody will have a sick feeling. And if something is of the devil, it seems like the hair will stand up on your neck. That's a simple way everyone can judge, whether they've got any spiritual discernment or not. — Kenneth E. Hagin
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker. — Jean-Paul Marat
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
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? — Linda Ellerbee
You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self. — Jay-Z
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
My love is like a stone tied round my neck; it's dragging me down to the bottom; but I love my stone. I can't live without it. — Anton Chekhov
Your muscles know nothing. It's your brain. Exercise is something you've got to do the rest of your life. It's a lifestyle. Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the neck. You've got to work at it. — Jack LaLanne
Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are. — Katherine Center
When people ask me if Dean Martin drank, let me put it this way. If Dracula bit Dean in the neck, he'd get a Bloody Mary. — Red Buttons
The Cheka relied on its fearsome reputation. Pravda carried reports of Cheka victims being flayed alive, impaled, scalped, crucified, tied to planks that were pushed slowly into roaring furnaces or into containers of boiling water. In winter, the Cheka was said to pour water over naked prisoners, creating ice statues, while some prisoners were said to have their necks twisted to such a degree their heads came off.107 True or not, such tales contributed to the Cheka mystique. — Stephen Kotkin
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence. — Clement Attlee
The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith. — Pope Innocent III
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
The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia. — Paul Gascoigne
ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked. — Dakota Fanning
Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. — Solomon
A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles. — Jenson Button
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
Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. — Brownie Wise
If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'. — Martin Luther
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck. — Cyndi Lauper
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether. — Martial
The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. — Roald Dahl
I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley. — Kendrick Lamar
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