Quotes About Chasing Your Tail

#1. My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

Catherine Stock

#2. I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.

Robert Downey Jr.

#3. Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

George Carlin

#4. Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

Matt Bomer

#5. Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Tertullian

#6. And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him

Isabel Allende

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

Clive James

#8. Here are a few things I've learned from Albert
1. Any food is fair game until it is actually swallowed by someone else.
2. Take a nap whenever you can.
3. Don't bark unless it's important.
4. Chasing one's tail is sometimes unavoidable.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.

John Wilson

#10. Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

William Faulkner

#11. I'm a mite worried about how Foodle will respond to being out here," her aunt continued. "She's so sensitive to strange surroundings." Foodle apparently excelled at hiding her sensitivities, for she was chasing her tail with great enthusiasm.

Sabrina Jeffries

#12. America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Oriana Fallaci

#13. If your team is constantly chasing its own tail and putting out fires instead of having time to sit down and experiment, learn new things, and apply them in a manner that makes them stick, you don't have enough time to learn.

Roy Osherove

#14. Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

Ally Carter

#16. I am charging you with the protection of my mother and friends, not to mention keeping my younger self off the Internet. He is as dangerous as Opal.

Eoin Colfer

#17. I think that I'm running from something I heard on the radio That everybody's working for the weekend When does the weekend start? What comes at the end of the week? The end? Picture a tired dog chasing its tail

Henry Rollins

#18. What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

Haruki Murakami

#19. Wynton Marsalis' skills have grown as fast as his ambition, and he is the most ambitious younger composer in Jazz.

Jon Pareles

#20. Faith when looked at by the world looks like a dog chasing his tail.
Chase your tail or go to hell,crazy dog wins.

Attaboy

#21. So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

Oprah Winfrey

#22. Retaliation is a dog chasing its tail

Libba Bray

#23. When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. In life; don't go chasing after everything, or if you go for something, never doubt and miss the step, Or else you will miss a trick of the tail and lose everything.

Auliq Ice

#25. 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

#26. I view art as an inspirational tool.

Thomas Kincade

#27. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.

Jim Thompson

#28. Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

Cheryl Ladd

#29. You can go the route of not living your life at all - and a lot of actors do that, where they just won't even go out of the house at all - but it makes life so unenjoyable. You can't go out, you can't hold hands with your girlfriend, you can't do any of these things.

Austin Butler

#30. And learning any fact, he was annoyed not to have known it already, because whenever anything happened, the conversation around it had already trended and backlashed and been reexamined and swalloed and shat and reswallowed and reshat in a thousand places onlines, until all thinking felt redundant

Tony Tulathimutte

#31. The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

Gina Barreca

#32. You are that which you seek, but you have left your own deepness and are looking elsewhere. The stress of not finding it creates its own need to be released. And so the cycle continues. You are chasing your own tail, and much of the time that tail looks suspiciously like a woman.

David Deida

#33. She believes in saints. I believe in accidents. I think we basically believe in the same thing.

Gayle Forman

#34. We were making good time now, barrelling through the bodacious curves of southeastern Utah and ignoring all impending signs of trouble with the van. At least I was.
"You guys happy?" I said.
The kids smiled at me like I was a dog chasing my tail, sweet but stupid, and looked away.

Miriam Toews

#35. Without a plan your kind of just like a dog chasing it's tail, your not getting anywhere.

Gabrielle Dennis

#36. Prohibitions, trust me, only encourage bad behaviour.

Tom Holland

#37. It looked like I'd sold my pottage for a mess of afterbirth, as the saying is. I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped on.

Jim Thompson