Necks Quotes - Page 2

Better to be paralyzed from the neck down than the neck up

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

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

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion.

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

Take eloquence and wring its neck.

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

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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.

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

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.

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

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

... photojournalism has its tremendous rewards and it's wonderful work. In what other work can you wander aimlessly with a camera around your neck, armed only with your personal interest and your eyes?

I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.

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

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

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.

Next to me, Saiman smiled. "We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.