A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Austin O'Malley

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

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

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.
William Wells Brown

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

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.
Ellen Wilkinson

Daley may be sinking. The hot water has gone from his chest to his neck.
Don Rose

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

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.
A. I. Bezzerides

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
Penelope Spheeris

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

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck

From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
Karen Morley

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
Robert Herrick

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.
Thomas H. Kean