In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Who cared whether you could change motor oil when you could snap a rottweiler’s neck in 2.8 seconds? Now there was a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I… — Lillian Bassman Copy Share Image
I've just been bitten on the neck by a vampire... mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes I will rise… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I turn around and wrap my arms around his neck. "Whoa, girl," he says taken aback. "I thought we were keepin' this… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So… — Andre Benjamin Copy Share Image
I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
I didn’t look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers... — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Oh, yes, that feels so good," I moaned, and instead of punching Ian, pulled him closer. Breath tickled my neck as he… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the… — Terry Kath Copy Share Image
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all… — Till Lindemann Copy Share Image
But our love isn’t easy because it’s not meant to be. It requires work and sacrifice and protection. And I wouldn’t want… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's… — Ines de La Fressange Copy Share Image
I am accounted by some people as a good man. How cheap that character is acquired! Pay your debts, don't borrow money,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself; don't listen… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
Heat flushed Chauncey's neck; it took all his energy to curl his hands into two weak fists. He laughed at himself, but… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Ever since I was 12 years old I had to defend my love for heavy metal against those who say it's a… — Sam Dunn Copy Share Image
Trying to talk somebody out of the stuff that they enjoy in life is like trying to talk them out of their… — Merlin Mann Copy Share Image
It wasn't just that Lucy wanted to help him. She wasn't as selfless as that. She was madly attracted to him. She… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Right there, in front of everyone, I threw my arms arond his neck and mashed my mouth against his. He was startled… — James Patterson Copy Share Image