Necks Quotes - Page 6

• My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

  Charles R. Morris

  Writing, Perspective, West

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• I don't like people feeling like they've been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.

  Brian Chippendale

  People, Feelings, Sound

  Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2006.

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• I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

  Zach Condon

  Pain, Guitar, Bridges

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• Mine would be Your Song, which is just one of his ones that I... I was actually glad the whole song wasn't played in this film and it's just a few bars of it because it makes me cry. You know, there are some songs that just make the hairs on the back of your neck just stand up? That's one of those for me - I put it on if I want a good cry.

  Ashley Jensen

  Song, Hair, Bars

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Eggs, Exhibitions

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• The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

  John Carlos

  Country, Olympics, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not really in a hurry to ever wear a neck brace. That's why I'm kind of positive about it, because I'm healthy.

  Prince Fielder

  Healthy, Kind, Braces

  Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

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• I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day sitting in class and it just came to me how the neck worked. I was enlightened to the scales, and the runs. I just saw it and thought; now I understand it!

  Steve Young

  Running, Texas, Guitar

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.

  Avril Lavigne

  Girl, Fun, Kids

  "Talk Asia", edition.cnn.com. April 20, 2011.

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• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  Samuel Lover

  Winter, Biting, Icicles

  Samuel Lover (1843). “Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life”, p.356

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• At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

  Alanis Morissette

  Book, Writing, Breathing

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• My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Dream, Father

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• Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.

  Wayne Rooney

  Growing Up, League, Feelings

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• The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.

  Steven Spielberg

  Cutting, Editing, Editors

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• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Agency, Bankers, Lines

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• When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Fire

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• 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

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Birthday, Children, Self Esteem

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• 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

  Feet, People, Bully

  "Dyson, Merida React to 'Come On, People'". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2007.

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• With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Arms, Infinite, Touched

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• Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.

  Winston Churchill

  Fashion, War, Fate

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• if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

  Toni Morrison

  Circles, Iron, Bites

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• We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of time uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it's time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it's time to break our necks for home. There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Heart, Sleep

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• Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Baby, Wall, Guy

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “In Her Shoes”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

  Raymond Chandler

  Husband, Party, Fighting

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “Trouble Is My Business: A Novel”, p.215, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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