Tails Quotes - Page 13

• All along the backwater,
  Through the rushes tall,
  Ducks are a-dabbling,
  Up tails all!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Ducks, Wind In The Willows, Tall

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• 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. This custom is called a conference.

  S. J. Perelman

  Opposites, Two, Ponies

  "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47-48, 1992.

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• 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 the inside of your skull.

  Anne Michaels

  Love, Skulls, Long

  Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.10, A&C Black

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• 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 off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody.

  Larry Coryell

  Music, Guitar, Imagination

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• People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail.

  Joe Charboneau

  Inspirational, Anchors, Wind

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• 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 — he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.

  Charles Farrar Browne

  Children, Home, Men

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• One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails.

  Tony Stewart

  Way, One Way

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• Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

  Thomas Hood

  Mouths, Said, Extremes

  'The Doves and the Crows'

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• 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 under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.

  Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

  People, Tears, Twelve

  "Pakistan, a Dream Gone Sour". Book by Roedad Khan, 1997.

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• 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 by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Hair, Years, Berries

  Joe R. Lansdale “Deranged by Choice”, KHP Publishers

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• I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey
  Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way,
  And every Bulrush on the river bank
  A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.

  Oliver Herford

  Cat, Angel, Thinking

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• 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

  Men, Apes, Evolution

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• The sun fades like the spreading
  Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight
  Might be read as a warning to those desperate
  For easy solutions.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Twilight

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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 leaders to adopt sensible policies that would reduce the tail risks so that I could sell our gold, one nice thing about gold is that it doesn't even have quarterly conference calls.

  David Einhorn

  Nice, Long, Leader

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• 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 shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Public Opinion, Experts, Mastery

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• 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, say the explanations, was the Spirit of God moving on the chaos until its breath had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its month--emblem of eternity in its spiritual and of our world in its physical sense.

  Manly Hall

  Spiritual, Moving, Dust

  Manly Palmer Hall (2005). “Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.232, Lulu.com

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• 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 odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

  Laura Lippman

  Children, Math, Odds

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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• 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 the comet was bleeding across the sky.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Light, Sky, Dawn

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.323, Scholastic Inc.

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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 hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Hatred, Teeth, Division

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• 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 so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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• Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

  Virginia Graham

  Funny, Dog, Wags

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• This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

  Charles Ferguson

  Victory, Force, Whole

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• My pet-sitting day ends around sunset, and it's very satisfying to know that I've made several living beings happy that day. That I left their food bowls sparkling clean and fresh water in their water bowls. That I brushed them so their coats shined, and played with them until all our hearts were beating faster. That I kissed them goodbye and left them with their tails wagging or flipping or at least raised in a happy kind of way. That's a heck of a lot more than any president, pope, prime minister, or potentate can say, and I wouldn't switch places with any of them.

  Blaize Clement

  Goodbye, Sunset, Heart

  Blaize Clement (2009). “Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof: A Dixie Hemingway Mystery”, p.32, Macmillan

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• The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Weakness, Lions

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• Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

  C. L. R. James

  Running, Art, Cat

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