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Quotes About Neck

True courtesy," he continued, "earns the name. It is courtesy that is truthful. When the plebeian kneels to the monarch, he is offering his neck. He offers it because he knows his ruler can take it if he wishes. Common people like that say-or rather, they used to say, in older and better times—that I have no love of truth. But the truth is that it is precisely truth that I love, an open acknowledgment of fact.
~ Gene Wolfe
If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition of wearable computing can be kind of fuzzy itself. Thousands of years ago, in China, people would wear an abacus around their neck - that, in one sense, was a wearable computer.
~ Steve Mann
I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.
~ Lee Trevino
Just being able to talk about this issue...is a privilege, subsidized in a yin/yang sort of a way, somewhere, by somebody taking it in the neck
~ Anthony Bourdain
I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.
~ Ellen Schreiber
I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
~ bankhead tallulah ii
I've noticed being back in football that, after some anonymity, people recognise you again. It's a pain in the neck.
~ Nigel Pearson
What do you mean to do when you reach Lacy Manor?' asked Sir Horace, regarding him in some amusement. 'Wring Sophy's neck!' said Mr Rivenhall savagely. 'Well, you don't need my help for that, my dear boy!' said Sir Horace, settling himself more comfortably in his chair.
~ Georgette Heyer
There are machines that can get rid of your cellulite, so I want to do that. And my friend has just had a machine that has worked on her neck and tightened the elasticity of the skin. You just need a day off work afterwards, so I'm thinking, why not?
~ Carol Vorderman
caffeine fixture, liquid buzz, kinda makes the juices curl inside and out like having a pair of powdery legs wrapped tightly around your neck – strong and just a little wicked
~ Scott C. Holstad
Time in the heart and sequence in the brain-- Such as destroyed Rimbaud and fooled Verlaine. And let us then take godhead by the neck-- And strangle it, and with it, rhetoric.
~ Conrad Aiken
He described the bad lighting and her extremely thick neck, and was careful to make those sound not like excuses but merely like complicating factors.
~ Atul Gawande
Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks
~ Stephen King
A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
~ Stephen King
I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.
~ Ralph Lauren
She bought it, but it took a bit more coaxing to bring out the ring, which she kept on a silver chain around her neck. She even dropped it into my palm after I promised not to throw it down the nearest volcano.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.
~ William Cavendish
Your head will be fine," said Miri. "It's your neck you should worry about.
~ Shannon Hale
I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.
~ Ellen Schreiber
Soft on the neck of either dove love's hands let slip the reins: and while we look for light of love, love's twilight wanes...
~ Oksana Rus
Time drags. Time is a monster with a neck bloated with blood.
~ Maryse Condé
aventail bit into his neck and chin. He'd dressed
~ Steve Berry
I'm an expert at kissing girls necks, they love it. Girls say I'm quite sensitive, but I'm hyperactive too.
~ Lee Ryan
SHE FELT a hard pinch on her neck. "Hey!" she protested. Her eyelids flew open. The light was unbearably bright, just as painful, but everything was gauzy and indistinct, like there was a white scrim over everything. She wondered whether she'd fallen back asleep for several hours.
~ Joseph Finder