Quotes about tails
church tails scandal
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
art school tails
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. Jane Campion
horse tails said
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
circles tails edges
I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q... Aimee Bender
tails legs want
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. Billy Joel
graduation emotional heads-or-tails
I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails? David Brooks
tails found lodges
I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter. Buffalo Bill
tails influence torpedoes
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. Charles Caleb Colton
tails looks rabbits
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. Beatrix Potter
issues tails news
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. Bob Edwards
hate waiting tails
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. Bong Joon-ho
past coats tails
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. Billy Corgan
children tails band
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
fashion moving tails
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. Bill Bryson
white rabbits tails
The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. Bertrand Russell
cat men tails
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. Aristophanes
betrayal heads-or-tails perfect
Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Barbara Kingsolver
people innovation tails
Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation. Aziz Ansari
believe people tails
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer Charles Darwin
thinking faces tails
She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail. Benjamin Franklin
tails cute-winnie-the-pooh winni-the-pooh
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it. A. A. Milne
iraq way 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
russia dinosaurs tails
Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head. Alexander Lebed
apology tails jackets
Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket. Adlai E. Stevenson
work mind tails
Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail. Ani Difranco
ideas years tails
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
tails firsts coincidence
First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail
tails accidents bites
Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident. Christopher Paolini
people work-ethic 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
horse cat tails
FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. Ambrose Bierce
independent animal tails
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
mistake eels tails
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.
dog mean tails
A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.