To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

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

— Josephine Tey

“A poor puppy with an empty can tied to his tail, Thomas Carlyle wittily observes, ran and ran on, frightened by the noise of…

— Kaiten Nukariya

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was…

— Jay Chiat

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

His name is 'Mr. Spock.' And the first view of him can be almost frightening - a face so heavy-lidded and satanic you might…

— Gene Roddenberry

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

— Josh Billings

“You have no tail!" said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then at Wilson."How do you manage?”

— Janet Kagan

“The cat's tail was straying into her face again; she was forced to expel air in a most unbecoming fashion to avoid a mouthful…

— Meredith Duran

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like…

— Steve Winwood

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

— Anonymous

When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.

— Kurt Wagner

“As Fama put it, “Life always has a fat tail.”

— Roger Lowenstein

Computing shows up in many different ways. You have computing that you wear, computing that you carry. What you think of as the traditional…

— Michael Dell

“It’s a spur? Your males don’t have one?” “What’s it for?” “Nothing, I imagine. It’s just there, like my tail. Maybe it had a…

— Ruby Dixon

Keeping a woman to her word is like trying to hold an alligator by its tail.

— Vikrant Parsai