Own Tail Quotes

18 quotes by 18 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail. — Clive James
• 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
• You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. — Criss Jami
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Own Tail Quote by Richard Codey
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Oriana Fallaci
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Sting
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Amy Tan
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Charles Bukowski
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Neal Stephenson
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Franny Billingsley
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Megan Whalen Turner
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Paolo Bacigalupi
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Jedediah Purdy
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Patricia Gaffney
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Clive James
• 1 Own Tail Quote by John Ruskin
• 1 Own Tail Quote by Criss Jami