Necks Quotes - Page 3

• The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

  Roland Joffe

  Men, White Man, India

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• All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

  Darrell Royal

  Sports, White, Meat

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• 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

  Jesus, Children, School

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• I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

  Tony Campolo

  Israel, Breathing, People

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• Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.

  Billy Carter

  Real, Beer, Boys

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• 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

  Couple, Mean, Guitar

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• 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

  Drawing, Guy, Strings

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

  William James

  Feet, Long, Devil

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

  Alvin Lee

  School, Guitar, Practice

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• I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

  Sophia Loren

  Animal, Long, Dumb

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

  Djuna Barnes

  Throat

  1916 'Greenwich Village As It Is', in Pearson's Magazine, Oct.

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• We have to have faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Voice, Feminist

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

  Edwin M. Stanton

  Breathing, Bags, Canvas

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• In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.

  Gary Cherone

  Suicide, Philosophy, Writing

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• If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.

  Pia Zadora

  Mean Girls, Jesus, Pain

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• When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

  Simon Newcomb

  Prayer, Men, Knives

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

  Steve Martin

  Love, Funny, Witty

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Sep 22, 2011

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

  Eli Wallach

  Beauty, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic, and the others either give me a stiff neck or lockjaw.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Sex, Giving

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• A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Should, Monarchs, Nooses

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 108), 1985.

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• Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Long, Advice

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• Prends l'e  loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!

  Paul Verlaine

  Son, Break, Eloquence

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• I have eyes like a bullfrog, a neck like an ostrich and long, limp hair. You just have to be good to survive with that equipment.

  Bette Davis

  Eye, Hair, Ostriches

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• 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

  Fashion, Children, Hair

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