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When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point. — Chelsea Handler

When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems. — Tom Hanks

I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash! — Roddy Piper

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

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn. — Muddy Waters

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. — William Shakespeare

The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender — Anne Boleyn

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. — C.S. Lewis

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D. — J.P. Donleavy

Around their necks hung ceremonial jewels that glistened like — Dan Brown

Protect yourself from Muslim vampires by making your neck non-halal. — Stephen Colbert

In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his neck. — John Carroll

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. — W.C. Fields

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck. — Kathleen Hanna

Baseball is 50% from the neck up — Ted Williams

When a man has the rope about his neck, you don't ask him about his health! — Leonid Andreyev

We walk around carrying Closed signs around our necks while we press Open to our chests and wonder why the doorbell never rings. — Shinji Moon

I don't ever get the great looking lawyer roles because I've got a thick neck from playing football. — Channing Tatum

I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat. — Donnie Lewis

Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck. — William Shakespeare

Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck. — Charles Le Gai Eaton

I wish all mankind had one neck so I could choke it! — Carl Panzram

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. — Anne Lamott

Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks. — Colum McCann

Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you. — Charlotte Bronte

Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate. — Ryan Reynolds

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

The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck. — John McGraw

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot. — Maya Angelou

What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand. — Pat Williams

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love. — Caitlin Thomas

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

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet. — Cynthia Heimel

Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it — Will Rogers

level was at their necks. It looked like — Chris Cocks

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

The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery
amputation at the neck. — Evan Esar

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl! — Edward Young

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle. — Randall Cobb

Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary. — Colum McCann

I stick my neck out for nobody. I'm the only cause I'm interested in. — Julius J. Epstein

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude. — Lou Reed

Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth. — A.A. Milne

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down. — Keith Richards

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

Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you. — Saddam Hussein

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality. — Bill Vaughan

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

Oh dear God, I was going down. There was no stopping it. Visions of broken necks danced in my head. — J. Lynn

Number one: Don't frisk me. Don't hurt me physically. Don't get anywhere near my neck. And don't call me Regis. — David Letterman

Cobbles and kettledrums! ... I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks. — C.S. Lewis

The world is a sewer of lies. We're all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it. — Benjamin Percy

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

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter. — Darrell Royal

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day. — Epicurus

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones. — Amy Lowell

We all look good for our age. Except for our necks. — Nora Ephron

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head. — Austin O'Malley

At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life. — Ernie Pyle

Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck. — Warsan Shire

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress. — Bill Veeck

Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing. — Brownie Wise

I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck. — Dorothea Lange

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

Ethan, your father and I didn't break our necks to send you to private schools that taught you to say 'yep' instead of 'yes. — Kevin D. Patterson

The Alexander Technique works ... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain. — Roald Dahl

It's nice to see some youth running around and not see achy backs and necks and arms, ... It's nice to see some young guys feeling spry. — Trevor Hoffman

He had forgotten they lived with a rope around their necks - until it cinched. — E.J. Koh

When you encounter the unbelievers, blows to necks it shall be until, once you have routed them, you are to tighten their fetters. — Tom Holland

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

Sounds like you're overcompensating ... Besides, I didn't want you to get a creak in your neck from lookin' down at me. — Dante Alighieri

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible. — John Fogerty

Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck. — N.J. Berrill

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks. — Kurt Cobain

I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too. — Lee Ryan

If you're driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes. — Baron Vaughn

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks. — Joyce Meyer

Free men stick their necks out. — Bernard Crick

The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster! — Bhartrhari

Speeches and me don't get along sometimes. It is kind of like putting a tie too tight on my neck. I'm going to do whatever feels right. — Rickey Henderson

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck. — Rumi

Flamingo necks, peacock brains, pike livers, lark tongues, sow's udders, elephant trunks and ears extravagantly frilled with parsley. — Kate Quinn

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it. — Fanny Fern

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing. — Jackie Chan

No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket. — Robert Smith Surtees

We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke. — Elisabeth Elliot

From the necks up ... well, whoever said two heads are better than one never met a hydra. — Tera Lynn Childs

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks — Stephen King

East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of-and forth! — Richard Hovey

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck. — Eminem

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them. — Christopher Reeve

I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity. — Hank Green

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck. — George Lucas

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. — Steve Martin

It's like an Alcatraz around my neck — Thomas Menino

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. — Sarah Grimke

Grab this day by the neck and kiss it. — Bill Murray