Tails Quotes - Page 8

• It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that.
  You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure.
  As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option.'

  Seth Godin

  Art, Innovation, Coins

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• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Struggle, Wrestling, Men

  Speech at Thayer's tenth anniversary reunion at Harvard, 1895.

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• Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail.

  Clive James

  Water, Ponds, Verbs

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• I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Cat, Eye, Nursing

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• He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Cat, Doors, Practice

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• J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, "jacere", "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Latin, Verbs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.115, 谷月社

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• But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down? Didn't you tell me once that they just waggled their tails at one another in the mating season?''Quite correct.' I shrugged my shoulders. 'Well all right, if they like it. But it's not my idea of molten passion.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Passion, Love Life, Ideas

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• To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Fancy, Chosen

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• I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Cat, Parenting

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

  Alexander Lebed

  Russia, Dinosaurs, Needed

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• I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Men, He Man

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• Now, I'm a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their boots, the smell of their legs, and the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Dog, Fun, Men

  "The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories".

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• What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

  Jeff Bezos

  Wind, World, Complaining

  "Jeff Bezos: A Down-to-Earth CEO Reaching for the Stars" by Joanna Stern, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2013.

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• Changing the world is like trying to straighten a dog's tail. However much you may try, you won't succeed. But although the tail won't straighten, if you keep trying every day, at least you will put on some muscle. Similarly, even though it is difficult to make a change, our effort to do so in itself brings positive results. It will help us change. Without waiting for others to change,if we change ourselves first, that will make a difference. Instead of worrying about results, focus on doing our best in what we are engaged in.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Dog, Differences, Worry

  "Patience leads to Love". Conversation with Riitta Uosukainen, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, October 06, 2000.

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• While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears, tail, eyebrows, various rumbles and grunts, the slant of his great cold nose or a succession of heartrending sighs to get his meaning across.

  Jean Little

  Dog, Eyebrows, Use

  Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

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• Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

  Helen Keller

  Dog, Giving, Silence

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• The cow knows not what her tail is worth till she has lost it.

  George Herbert

  Cows, Lost, Knows

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.270

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• And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dog, Believe, Afterlife

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.880, Macmillan

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• From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"

  John Galsworthy

  Dog, Angel, Hands

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• "Hi," I said. She came over, licked my hand discreetly, allowed herself to be scratched for a time, chased her tail in a dignified circle, lay down again. I remember thinking: "There are times God puts a choice in front of you." I often had such thoughts back then. We took the dog.

  Stanley Bing

  Dog, Thinking, Hands

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• FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Cat, Ears

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.66, 谷月社

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• A true marketplace is a treasure of long tail products.

  Saurabh Pandey

  Journey, Long, Treasure

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• It dances today, my heart,
  like a peacock it dances,
  it dances.
  It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail,
  It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,
  Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,
  like a peacock it dances.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Sports, Passion, Heart

  Rabindranath Tagore (1986). “Selected poems”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago

  Miguel Syjuco

  Tyrants, Humanity, Today

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.

  Alice Oswald

  Hands, Order, Rivers

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