Napes Quotes & Sayings

Kid, show me a man who doesn't go down on his wife and I'll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight. — Leo Durocher

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long. - ANONYMOUS — Melody Beattie

I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes. — Tao Lin

... Carlotta hovered over us as we devoured her meatballs, running her floury fingers over the backs of our chairs, then gently touching our heads, the napes of our necks. We pretended not to notice, ashamed in front of one another and ourselves to show that we drank in her nurturance as eagerly as her meat sauce. — Jonathan Lethem

Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. — William Shakespeare

Actual evidence I have none, But my aunt's charwoman's sister's son Heard a policeman, on his beat Say to a housemaid in Downing Street That he had a brother, who had a friend, Who knew when the war was going to end. — Reginald Arkell

I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good. Kinsey Milhone — Sue Grafton

I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers. — Nate Parker

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady. — Lady Randolph Churchill

It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring. — Eleanor Catton

Every time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. — Alice Sebold

She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls were gentle and meek and did a great deal of sewing and looked after the poor and laid their tender napes beneath a husband's booted foot, and even if he brought home cabfuls of half-naked chorus girls and had them dance on the rich round mahogany dining-table (rosily reflecting great pearly hams and bums in its polished depths). Or, drunk to a frenzy, raped the kitchen-maid before the morning assembly of servants and children and her black silk-dressed self (gathered for prayers). Or forced her to stitch, on shirts, her fingers to rags to pay his gambling debts.
Husbands were a force of nature or an act of God; like an earthquake or the dreaded consumption, to be borne with, to be meekly acquiesced to, to be impregnated by as frequently as Nature would allow. It took the mindless persistence, the dogged imbecility of the grey tides, to love a husband. — Angela Carter

If only I were a magician who could make things possible. I'd give objects the gift of defiance: banisters, gramaphones, guns, the napes of necks, braided hair. — Sasa Stanisic