Neck Quotes

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

Rather, Roses, Diamonds

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

Forget, Important, Saying

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass

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

Long, Keep, Devil

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.
Chinua Achebe

Time, Find, Around

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash

Life, Important, Single

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

Life, Girl, Sorry

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.
Keith Richards

Music, Rock, Roll

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

Game, Football, Played

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

Hair, Four, Feet

My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
Adele

Silence, Before, Around

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.
Elvis Presley

Before, Fact, Getting

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner

Age, Husband, Fake

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

Makes, Progress, Turtle

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, Seriously

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

Mind, Long, Pretty

I keep guitars that are, you know, the neck's a little bit bent and it's a little bit out of tune. I want to work and battle it and conquer it and make it express whatever attitude I have at that moment. I want it to be a struggle.
Jack White

Work, Attitude, Struggle

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

Work, Best, Mind

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'
Lewis Grizzard

Attitude, Dog, Call

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

Nothing, Break, Hole

I can wrap my legs around my neck.
Janice Dickinson

Around, Legs, Wrap

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Robert Fulghum

Nothing, Fire, Problem

You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
Vin Diesel

Heart, Her, Break

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber

Business, Lonely, Past

I keep my skin - especially on my face and neck - out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I've got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.
Giada De Laurentiis

Time, Laughter, Sun

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.
Maria Sharapova

Sometimes, Weak, Arm

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'
George Will

Parents, Give, Guns

I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I'm also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.
Giada De Laurentiis

Help, Stress, Keep

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

Age, Future, Yourself

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

Men, Why, Around

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