Necks Quotes - Page 4

• When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Three

  Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 1941

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• On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Afterlife, Gold, Purses

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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• I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

  Barry Watson

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have to concentrate more intently when people speak. I always have to position myself on their right side so that I can hear out of my left ear. I sometimes get a crick in my neck from listening. But I don't there's too much else.

  Stephanie Beacham

  People, Listening, Ears

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• Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.

  Edward Hopper

  Girl, Queens, Two

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• It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs.

  KT Tunstall

  Sunshine, Emotional, People

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• There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Ill Will, Criticism

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition”, p.1708, ShandonPress

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• In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

  Maxime Weygand

  War, Three, World

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• I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Sex, Feet, Justice

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.10

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• I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

  Louis Leakey

  Water, Bullets, Killing

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Nails, Satan, Footprint

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• Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Strong, Hair, Racing

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• He bit the nape of my neck and I moaned.

  Patricia Briggs

  Bits

  Patricia Briggs (2007). “Blood Bound”, p.91, Penguin

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• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  Vin Diesel

  Heart, Cute Sister, Break

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• I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.

  Lee Trevino

  Morning, Orthopedics, Sponges

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• It's like an Alcatraz around my neck

  Thomas Menino

  Silly, Dumb, Alcatraz

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• The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Intelligent, Men, Essence

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

  Prince Fielder

  Done, Enough, Prove

  Source: dynamic.espn.go.com

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• You should go," I breathed. "You should definitely go." "Go here?" His mouth was on my shoulder. "Or here?" It moved up my neck.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mouths, Hush Hush, Should

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2009). “Hush, Hush”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.

  Donna Reed

  Decision, Sunglasses, Honey

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• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  Scott Putesky

  Florida, Rockets, Harmony

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• 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

  Would Be, Want, Next

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• 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

  Trust, Rights, Ties

  John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto II”

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• 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

  Kids, Pneumonia, Years

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• That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

  John Deacon

  Old Things, Bass, Firsts

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