Top 1200 Stiff Neck Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.

I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.

My feet look like hooves-like, fake-leather bottoms and funky toenails - and I scrub them with a big stiff-bristled nylon brush you'd use for scrubbing the side of your house.

The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.

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

It's almost embarrassing, but I do have one trick for taking portraits on commission. I carry one of these little bicycle horns in my pocket, and once in a while, when someone is sour-faced or stiff, I blow my horn. It sort of shatters the barriers. It's silly, but it works.

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

Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!

A roll-neck and some flat shoes is about as good as it gets.

I am not aware of anything below my neck. I live completely in my head.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

And now we can't," I said. "Which sucks, but the main thing is that your dad's alive." He smiled, hesitant at first, then a blazing grin broke through that made my heart stop. I recovered and grinned back and went to throw my arms around his neck, then stopped, blushing. Before I could pull back, he caught my elbows and put my arms around his neck and pulled me into a hug. Then he jumped, chair swiveling so fast I nearly went flying. I heard footsteps in the hall and I scrambled off his lap just as Simon swung in, breathing heavily, like he'd come running.

Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone that was so certain they would be rejected, they would be getting their revenge in advance. I was lucky - it could have been a pipe bomb.

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

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

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

If a bunch of Republicans are too stiff- necked, too proud, or in some cases too committed to the old order, after the election, I think they're going to be very sobered by their position.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

You have to try and take games by the scruff of the neck... you can't mollycoddle everyone.

It's depressing to think what it would mean to be impaired down the neck.

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

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

My encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll is a millstone around my neck.

Jealousy is the lifelong noose hanging about the neck of love.

I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the afternoon, sitting in the shade... with stiff fingers and chilled bones... the water froze in little cakes all over the picture.

A sweater around your neck is always a great idea.

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

All my songs were made at the end of the neck, 'farmer's corner' chords.

I like jeans, but I think in 100 years it's going to be crazy when we look back at the fact that everyone, every day for about 60 years straight, wore stiff blue pants as their default. Why?

I'm good in front of the camera in terms of speaking or entertaining or being humorous, but when it comes to dancing, you really got to know your stuff in order to be confident. You can freeze up or get stiff, and it's just not a good situation.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Follow your instincts. Do the kind of writing you love to do and do best. 'Stiff' was an oddball book - I mean, a funny book about cadavers? - and I worried that it would be too unconventional. In the end, that's what has made it a success, I think.

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

I have supersensitive skin, to the point where sometimes I touch my neck and it turns red.

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

Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.

Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.

During the hard training phase never be afraid to take a day off. If your legs are feeling unduly stiff and sore, rest; if you are at all sluggish, rest; in fact, if in doubt, rest.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.

You always appreciate it when people stick your neck out to support you.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

I never feel I repeat myself. I really go out of my way to amuse myself. I would be bored stiff. If I feel the déjavu when I'm doing something, I stop and rethink and rework it.

You have to be able to take a punch. A strong neck is really important.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

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

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

call out if you need a hand. if she looks like she's going to have you, i'll sneak up behind her and whach her on the head with a stiff rabbit

My dad called me meat head dead from the neck up.

The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.

Asian men are the sexiest. They got no body hair from the neck down.