Own Tail Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as…
— Jedediah Purdy
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What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean…
— Patricia Gaffney
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Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.
— Clive James
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I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in…
— John Ruskin
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You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
— Criss Jami
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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
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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
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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…
— Sting
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's…
— Mark Twain
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Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness…
— Amy Tan
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Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped…
— Charles Bukowski
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Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology…
— Neal Stephenson
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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…
— Franny Billingsley
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Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!†A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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He loves me, and I reward his love by forcing on him something he hates. In the evening, after we dance, he rarely returns to…
— Megan Whalen Turner
Who Wrote These Own Tail Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Own Tail Quotes as follows: