Tails Quotes

456 Tails quotes by 364 unique authors

Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I… — Edmund de Waal
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab… — John F. Kennedy
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of… — Ambrose Bierce
The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the… — Jonathan Haidt
You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments. — Jonathan Haidt
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a… — Al Gore
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one -… — Elizabeth Warren
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of… — Hunter S. Thompson
Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions.… — S. J. Perelman
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes… — Anne Michaels
Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail… — Larry Coryell
People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail. — Unknown Author
The happy married man dies in good stile at home, surrounded by his weeping wife and children. The old bachelor don't die at all —… — Charles Farrar Browne
One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.... — Tony Stewart
Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth. — Thomas Hood
What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live… — Unknown Author
I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world… — Joe R. Lansdale
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape. — John Philip Sousa
I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our… — David Einhorn
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We… — Wilhelm Reich
Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This,… — Manly Hall
There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the… — Laura Lippman
The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if… — Kathryn Lasky
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
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was… — Elisabeth Eaves

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