Tail Quotes
446 Tail quotes by 345 unique authors
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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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I wanted the moments of my life to follow and order themselves like those of a life remembered. You might as well try and catch…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's…
— Margaret Atwood
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How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some…
— Dorianne Laux
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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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Every dog has it's day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weakend.
— June Carter Cash
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The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a…
— Dean Koontz
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If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
— John Adams
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So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor…
— James Howe
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The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, "Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am!"…
— Roald Dahl
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To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
— Katherine Paterson
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When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.
— Graham Chapman
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Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I…
— Joanne Harris
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And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said…
— Lewis Carroll
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The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered…
— Barbara Mertz
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A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and…
— John Steinbeck
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Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?"…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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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All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll…
— Annie Dillard
Who Wrote These Tail Quotes
345 authors contributed a total of 446 Tail Quotes, led by these top contributors: