Tails Quotes
456 Tails quotes by 364 unique authors
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There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because…
— Howard Schultz
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Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail…
— Rob Sheffield
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Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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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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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
— Jonathan Swift
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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail…
— Desmond Tutu
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
— Mark Twain
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
— Mark Twain
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The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
— Mark Twain
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I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals…
— Christopher Walken
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I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
— Kate Walsh
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that…
— Lalu Prasad Yadav
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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,…
— Mark Twain
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Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for…
— Graham Greene
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How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can’t nobody…
— Toni Morrison
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Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then,…
— William Shakespeare
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Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
— John Steinbeck
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
— Beatrix Potter
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Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but…
— Gregory Maguire
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How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to…
— Lewis Carroll
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You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing…
— Albert Einstein
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A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails…
— Billy Collins
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Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you…
— Christopher Paolini
Who Wrote These Tails Quotes
364 authors contributed a total of 456 Tails Quotes, led by these top contributors: