Tails Quotes - Page 21

• Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.

  Elsa Barker

  Circles, Eternity, Serpent

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are reading a large newspaper, all spread out on the table, your cat will come and sit on the very paragraph you are reading, the talented cat draping her tail with miraculous precision over the very line you're not finished with.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Reading, Cat, Lines

  Leonore Fleischer (1982). “The Cat's Pajamas”, Harpercollins

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• The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.

  Jennifer Stone

  Suicide, Children, Way

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• Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

  Bill Vaughan

  Children, Band, Lame

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• Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft.
  [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]

  George Herbert

  Pigs

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• Im Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Yummy, Interesting, Southern

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• The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

  Steven Weber

  Snakes, People, Voting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cat, Land

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

  John Ruskin

  Devil, Green, Admiration

  John Ruskin (2010). “The Poetry of Architecture - Cottage, Villa, Etc - To Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art”, p.161, Orchard Press

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• I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Halloween, Party

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• I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.

  Joe Nichols

  Thinking, Years, Play

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• You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  White, Buckets, Bills

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• Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Money, Numbers, Car

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• I've always kind of pushed the envelope in terms of trying to get away with things no one else was going near. I always thought of myself like a mouse trying to get cheese that no one else could get without getting their tail snipped off.

  Emo Philips

  Trying, Envelopes, Cheese

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.

  Tony Hawk

  Thinking, Feet, Rocks

  Source: espn.go.com

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• The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile.
  [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]

  George Herbert

  Apes, Shows, Higher

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• Jerusalem - a divided city, where demonstrations for and against various issues occur regularly. One day, during an Orthodox demonstration against autopsies, I happened to click a few frames while a young man pushed his hamsa (spread hand) into my camera, which is seen by some as 'the evil eye.' As it happened, it was the tail end of my roll of film and the image is actually a double exposure. This taught me that in spite of your careful framing, chance occurrences create the most interesting images.

  Micha Bar-Am

  Eye, Men, Issues

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• But no longer could I aks God what to do, since the answer, I was sure, would not suit me. I could do what suited me know, as long as I could pay for it. 'As long as I could pay for it.' That phrase soon became the tail that wagged my dog. If I had died then, it should have been my epigraph.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Dog, Should Have, Long

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• I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.

  Eric Ludy

  Guy, Saint, Ponies

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• To try to please people is an endless chasing of one's own tail. That's not very satisfying, so we do what we like and that satisfies us. When it does work out, its a bonus, really.

  Wayne Coyne

  People, Work Out, Trying

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• When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Order, Giving, Lobster

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• Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is.   He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience.   He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.

  Tea Leoni

  Pain, Dragons, Expression

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• Careful observers may foretell the hour
  (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r.
  While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er
  Her frolics, and pursues her tail no more.

  Jonathan Swift

  Rain, Cat, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Fall, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Atheist's Mass”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Thinking, Doubt

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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