Tails Quotes · Page 5

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Alexander Lebed

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

— Kathy Reichs

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

— Louis MacNeice

I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

— George S. Patton

Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

— Wallace Stevens

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…

— Rumer Willis

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

— Criss Jami

I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of…

— Emmanuel Petit

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a…

— Ambrose Bierce

“In life there are heads and there are tails however when one starts to excrete thoughts out of the latter and proceed…

— Ryan Cayne

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and…

— John Adams

William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated…

— Gena Showalter

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail…

— John Dryden

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for…

— John Green

The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and…

— Arthur Cleveland Bent

With old inflation riding the headlines, I have read till I am bleary-eyed, and I can't get head from tails of the…

— Will Rogers

[Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing,…

— Erin Hunter

The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under…

— Walker Percy

You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives…

— Joseph Campbell

Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry,…

— Anonymous

I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic…

— Pauline Oliveros

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It…

— Gabrielle Zevin

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

— June Carter Cash

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

— John Barrymore

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

— Aziz Ansari

Ah, but tiggers can't climb down, uh, uh, because, uh, oh... oh their tails get in the way!

— Tigger

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

— John B. S. Haldane

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

— Seth Klarman

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

— Anonymous

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

— Mason Cooley

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

— Anonymous

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

— Sharon Lee

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

— John Philip Sousa

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

— Eric Ludy

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

— Kurt Wagner

“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.”

— David H. Levy

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

— John Lyly

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

— Kenneth Grahame