Take eloquence and wring its neck.
Regardless of the number of precautions that we take to save our necks, part of the attraction of going out on the water in the first place is the element of risk.
I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.
When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement. ' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.
Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.
Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.
I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.
When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.
How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan
Prends l'e loquence et tords-lui son cou! Take eloquence and break its neck!
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.
The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea.
For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?
My neighbor's not even listening to me. He's all excited about some garden hose he bought at Brookstone. He's convinced it was designed by NASA. "Actually, it's got two nozzles, one for the hot and one for the. . . " Really? Is it long enough to go around both our necks and the chimney so we can tandem jump off of this? That's all I really care about you and your little garden hose.
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.
I just remember Kathy Bates getting on the stage and "The Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins. " I looked around, because I really thought Nick Nolte would get it. I really thought Nick would get it. I was very surprised. It was neck and neck with Nick Nolte and myself. So I really was expecting that to happen, and I went in there without any expectations.
Kids can be a pain in the neck when they're not a lump in your throat.