Tails Quotations

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!

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

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

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood

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

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

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

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.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

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.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

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.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

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

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

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.

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

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

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

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

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

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.

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.

If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation.

I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

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.

I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

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

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

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

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

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

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

Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

Many dogs can understand almost every word humans say, while humans seldom learn to recognize more than half a dozen barks, if that. And barks are only a small part of the dog language. A wagging tail can mean so many things. Humans know that it means a dog is pleased, but not what a dog is saying about his pleasedness.

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails.

Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

I had a rat-tail when I was younger. I had this nice Bobby Brown fade, with a rat-tail that was long enough to wrap around my face. I used to chew on the end and bite it.

People think I was born in top hat and tails.

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

One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

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

...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.

[Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits." "But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.

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.

I've got my warrior name, too!" Crookedjaw?" How did you guess?" A purr rumbled in his throat. Beacuse your tail's still straight.

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

Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

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

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail

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

Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.

The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]

The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

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.

Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.

The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Because hate's just the flip side of love. Like heads and tails on a dime. If you don't know what it feels like to love someone, how would you know what hate is? One can't exist without the other.

She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Why are you worried about him? Des is a punk. (Urian) Desiderius is dead. Kyrian killed him. (Tabitha) Yeah, and I'm the Easter Bunny- see my fluffy tail? You don't just kill a Spathi, little girl. All you do is take him out of commission for a while. (Urian)

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

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

The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.

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

You had life by the tail and didn't know it.

Retribution is a dog chasing its tail.

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

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of 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.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

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

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

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

You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

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

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.

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.