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Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.
John Steinbeck
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
Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.
William Shakespeare
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
William Cobbett
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
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.
Djuna Barnes
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
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When I warned the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken some neck.
Winston Churchill
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.
Alice Hoffman
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Austin O'Malley
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli Wallach
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
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.
Knute Rockne
I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.
Robin Trower
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
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.
Clement Attlee
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
Louis V. Gerstner
Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
Caligula
You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again.
Robert Jordan
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