Tails famous quotes

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
-- A. A. Milne

#Tails

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

#Apology #Tails #Jackets

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
-- Aimee Bender

#Circles #Tails

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Hands #Mind #Tails

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.
-- Alexander Lebed

#Russia #Tails #Dinosaurs

Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
-- Alexander Pope

#Science #Eels #Tails

The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.
-- Ali Khamenei

#Iraq #Tails #Way

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail
-- Ally Carter

#Tails #Firsts #Coincidence

Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really...slow. -Grabrielle
-- Ally Carter

#Years #Ideas #Tails

What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.
-- Amy Adams

#People #Work Ethic #Tails

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
-- Anne, Princess Royal

#People #Teeth #Tails

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Betrayal #Perfect #Tails

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
-- Beatrix Potter

#Rabbits #Savages #Tails

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.
-- Bill Vaughan

#Children #Tails #Band

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
-- Buffalo Bill

#Tails #Found

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
-- Charles Darwin

#Men #Tails #Ears

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.
-- Charles Ferguson

#Victory #Tails #Force

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Men #Tails #Machines

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
-- David Lynch

#Intuition #Tails #Way

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
-- Davy Crockett

#Pigs #Hands #Tails

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
-- Diana Ross

#Kids #Energy #Tails

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.
-- Dweezil Zappa

#Sound #Tails #Gears

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.
-- Elsa Barker

#Circles #Tails #Eternity

I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.
-- Emo Philips

#Trying #Tails #Envelopes

Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.
-- Empress Dowager Cixi

#Tails #Wags #Becoming

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.
-- Eoin Colfer

#Humble #Tails #Genius

...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.
-- Eoin Colfer

#Tourists #Tails #Painful

There are useful herbs growing near the oak tree by the stream," Flamepaw pointed out "Littlecloud would come for these" his tail curled up in amusement "Then we could pelt Blackfoot with acorns and he'd think they came from StarClan
-- Erin Hunter

#Thinking #Tree #Tails

Welcome to our camp!" Blackstar called, beckoning them with his tail. "Rest here and take your pick of the fresh-kill pile." "Who are you and what have you done with Blackstar?" Lionblaze muttered.
-- Erin Hunter

#Tails #Done #Welcome

Now it's our turn to kick some tail!
-- Falco

#Tails #Turns #Kicks

Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.
-- Fergus Henderson

#Common Sense #Tails #Noses

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a ***** mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
-- Francis Quarles

#Heart #Luxury #Tails

A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.
-- Franny Billingsley

#Mean #Circles #Tails

I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.
-- Fred Astaire

#Dance #Tails

I don't like top hats, white ties, and tails.
-- Fred Astaire

#White #Ties #Tails

People think I was born in top hat and tails.
-- Fred Astaire

#Thinking #People #Tails

Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.
-- Garth Nix

#Tails

The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.
-- George Eliot

#Men #Tails #Ems

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.
-- Gertrude Atherton

#Men #Soul #Tails

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.
-- Graham Chapman

#Tails #Ugly #Danger

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
-- Gunter Grass

#Tails #Coins #Melancholy

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
-- Gunter Grass

#Progress #Tails #Coins

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
-- Heinrich Heine

#Laughter #People #Tails

Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail
-- Hiro Mashima

#Tails #Fairy #Specialty

But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.
-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Dog #Long #Tails

Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.
-- James Chanos

#Government #Australia #Tails

If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
-- James Herriot

#Dog #Tails #Gone

So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.
-- James Howe

#Rabbits #Tails #Looks

I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.
-- James Whitcomb Riley

#Horse #Tails #Said

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.
-- Janette Rallison

#Long #Tails #Malls

Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Tails #Tongue #Foxes

While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.
-- Jean Little

#Dog #Eyebrows #Tails

The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Suicide #Children #Tails

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
-- John Adams

#Believe #Men #Tails

Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.
-- John B. Larson

#Senior #Tails #Coins

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.
-- John Diefenbaker

#Flying #Tails

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
-- John Dryden

#Art #Nature #Tails

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.
-- John Lyly

#Tails #Mouths #Honey

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.
-- John M. Geddes

#Fear #Thinking #Tails

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
-- John Philip Sousa

#Men #Tails #Apes

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
-- John Ray

#Cat #Tails #Higher

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.
-- John Ruskin

#Devil #Tails #Green

What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.
-- Joni Rodgers

#Book #Self #Tails

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.
-- Josephine Tey

#Tin #Tails #Denial

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
-- Josh Billings

#Dog #Tails #World

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
-- Josh Billings

#Letting Go #Tails #Bulls

Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.
-- June Carter Cash

#Funny #Dog #Tails

I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.
-- Karl Kraus

#Style #Tails #Firsts

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
-- Kate Walsh

#Fur #Tails #Four

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.
-- Kathy Reichs

#White #Tuxedos #Tails

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!
-- Kenneth Grahame

#Ducks #Tails

As I get older I perceive Life has its tail in its mouth.
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#Tails #Mouths #Perceive

If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.
-- Leonore Fleischer

#Reading #Cat #Tails

"All right", said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone.
-- Lewis Carroll

#Cat #Tails #Gone

A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.
-- Louis MacNeice

#Cat #Grace #Tails

You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson

#White #Buckets #Tails

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
-- Mario Batali

#Media #Ears #Tails

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
-- Mark Twain

#Cat #Home #Tails

Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.
-- Michael Bassey

#Fake Friends #Dog #Tails

I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
-- Michael Bolton

#Opposites #Legs #Tails

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago
-- Miguel Syjuco

#Tyrants #Humanity #Tails

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.
-- Mitt Romney

#Tails #Blame #Donkey

Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.
-- Natalie Angier

#Party #Eggs #Tails

The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.
-- Nathalia Crane

#Tails #Lines #Bees

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
-- Nathan Myhrvold

#Lobster #Tails

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.
-- Niels Henrik Abel

#Track #Tails #Foxes

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
-- Oriana Fallaci

#Dog #America #Tails

Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.
-- Paula McLain

#Dog #Eye #Tails

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.
-- Philip Pullman

#Mean #Two #Tails

Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me.
-- Plutarch

#Dog #Cutting #Tails

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
-- Richard Codey

#Dog #Years #Tails

Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.
-- Rob Sheffield

#Hair #Tails #Four

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.
-- Robert A. M. Stern

#Cat #Sign Language #Tails

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
-- Robert Breault

#Happiness #Fancy #Tails

After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
-- Robert R. McCammon

#Dog #Years #Tails

Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.
-- Robin Wasserman

#Laughter #Fake #Tails

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
-- Rudyard Kipling

#Brother #Tails #Behinds

I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.
-- Rumer Willis

#Tails #Coats #Feels

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.
-- Samuel Hopkins Adams

#Tails

A true marketplace is a treasure of long tail products.
-- Saurabh Pandey

#Journey #Long #Tails