Quotes About Tails

#1. A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

William James

#2. those dogs, the unwanted ones that have been mistreated all their lives. You can kick them and kick them, but they'll still come back to you, cringing and wagging their tails. Begging. Hoping

Paula Hawkins

#3. What you have to remember," said Mr. Ibis, testily, "is that life and death are different sides of the same coin. Like the heads and tails of a quarter." "And if I had a double-headed quarter?" "You don't. They only belong to fools, and gods.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Mandelbrot saw a seemingly smooth boundary resolve itself into a chain of spirals like the tails of sea horses. The irrational fertilized the rational.

James Gleick

#5. Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can't live with them, they can't live without you. It's a lose-lose situation.

Yannis Karatsioris

#6. Ye monsters of the bubbling deep,
Your Maker's praises spout;
Up from the sands ye codlings peep,
And wag your tails about

Cotton Mather

#7. Laurie picks up a briefcase and places it on the table. He opens the lid and his head disappears under the top. Oh god. Is he about to introduce me to a cat of nine tails, or some bizarre tickling stick? Brace yourself Liz. Cate told you to always carry your pepper spray, you fool.

LeeAnn Whitaker

#8. Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

David H. Levy

#9. Don't crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it's really painful. People think it's necessary, but it's painful for the animal, and it's completely unnecessary.

Rory Freedman

#10. I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

David Brooks

#11. Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are nil, and you don't even have tails! Of course people aren't content! ... Now if tigers weren't content, that would be something to wonder about.

Bill Watterson

#12. Rabbits have white tails in order that it be easy for us to shoot them.

Stephen Hawking

#13. I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

Erica Jong

#14. Down the road someone is practicing scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

Louis MacNeice

#15. 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

#16. I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

E.B. White

#17. I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.

Michael Bolton

#18. 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

#19. On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

Virginia Postrel

#20. Whipping, caning, chains, restraints, the cat-o'-nine tails and many other devices beloved of the Marquis de Sade are employed in more extreme sado-masochistic relationships. A spanking, though, s every girl knows, is more about pleasure than pain.

Chloe Thurlow

#21. They were Archer's second set of children an d paragons of contemporary teenage cynicism. They enjoyed setting fire to the tails of tender thoughts.

Tom Wolfe

#22. The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.

William Poundstone

#23. I had to get out of the Boston area, so I flipped a coin and said, 'Heads - Miami, tails - California. I was in my mid-20s and came out here with no training. Acting wasn't even in my mind.

Alex Rocco

#24. Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#25. Entering an white tie and tails party wearing an ordinary suit, he announced,Please, I don't want anyone to apologize for over dressing.

Noel Coward

#26. To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood ...

Lord Chesterfield

#27. Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.

Dweezil Zappa

#28. The deep-laden boats pull in against the coast where the canneries dip their tails into the bay. The figure is advisedly chosen, for if the canneries dipped their mouths into the bay the canned sardines which emerge from the other end would be metaphorically, at least, even more horrifying.

John Steinbeck

#29. I had Hallowe'en 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

#30. I think mice
Are rather nice.

Their tails are long,
Their faces small,
They haven't any
Chins at all.

Rose Fyleman

#31. The chocolates are shaped like mice, with almond ears and licorice tails. He eats two immediately and puts the rest of the bag in the pocket of his coat, hoping they will not melt. He

Erin Morgenstern

#32. Glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call home.

Khaled Hosseini

#33. There's a lathered sorrel stallion running through the Joshua trees and a young man in the saddle with his coat tails in the breeze. He's got a six gun on his right hip and a rifle at his knees and he's dealing in a game that he can't win.

Charlie Daniels

#34. Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

Walter Inglis Anderson

#35. Stories have haunted us and followed us from our beginning," Samuel said. "We carry them along with us like invisible tails - the story of original sin and the story of Cain and Abel. And I don't understand either of them. I don't understand them at all but I feel them. Liza gets angry with

John Steinbeck

#36. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.

Sarah Addison Allen

#37. They huddle in the marshes and woods, hiding like prey from the wind and the sun. We live with our tails touching the sky.

Erin Hunter

#38. Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Janette Rallison

#39. A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has.

David Oyelowo

#40. It's my job, first and foremost, to take care of the football. Guys work their tails off. That's Football 101. From the time you play youth ball to high school, college, pro, every level, that's the starting point for every quarterback. You have to take care of the ball.

Scott Tolzien

#41. There was a mood of magic and frenzy to the room. Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails. And then there was the smell-the smell of hope, the kind of smell that brought people home.

Sarah Addison Allen

#42. 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

#43. Courage was the fundamental quality in her character. Nothing was capable of giving her any excitement and of curing her of an ever-present tendency to boredom, but the idea that she was playing heads or tails with her whole existence.

Stendhal

#44. I always believe in being prepared, even when I'm dressed in white tie and tails.

George S. Patton

#45. Never wear a top hat and tails and bring a saw to a funeral

Josh Stern

#46. If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

Harper Lee

#47. What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image.

Chuck Mangione

#48. None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#49. Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Jean Webster

#50. Bing was sitting in front of the TV with the de Zoets an hour later when Mr. Manx came out, fully dressed, in his silk shirt and tails and narrow-toed boots. His starved, cadaverous face had an unhealthy sheen to it in the flickering blue shadows.

Joe Hill

#51. It's so pathetically easy to set big groups of voters off angrily chasing their own tails in response to media-manufactured nonsense,

Matt Taibbi

#52. I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the Latin you can have a bit fun: tight trousers, gold shirt open to my waist, be a bit ridiculous.

Anton Du Beke

#53. And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chasing tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part.. no-one ever said it would be so hard, I'm going back to the start

Coldplay

#54. The antiques in the window were especially cute, wrestling with each other and playfully snapping at each other's tails.

Joseph Fink

#55. Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

Mohnish Pabrai

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

Tony Stewart

#57. I shall always remember how the peacocks' tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks ...

Hermann Hesse

#58. There is nothing that dictates behavior more than what we want others to think of us. When that happens, we become a reflection in our own mind of what we believe is reflected in the mind of another, neither of which has the slightest chance of being correct. Talk about dogs chasing tails.

Dee Hock

#59. I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

John Green

#60. The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

Isabella Bird

#61. William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o'-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears.

Gena Showalter

#62. Three mongooses, playing chase, burst out of the undergrowth and came galumphing across the track. The leader stopped and the other two bounced on him. There was a crazy bundle of squealing fur, ears, noses and tails. The mongooses broke apart. All three stood up on hind legs to look at us.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#63. That's when I tossed a coin. If it came up heads, I'd take on Sakamochi and...

If the coin came up tails, I decided I'd take part in the game.

Koushun Takami

#64. That moved me, and I didn't even give him crap about the fact that his tuxedo had tails. Who the hell wears tails anymore?

S.C. Stephens

#65. There are three sides to every coin (Heads, Tails, and The Edge). Your ability to understand contrasting points of view and your ability to glean what information you believe to be valuable from each side is a crucial skill.

Robert Kiyosaki

#66. That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

Smokey Robinson

#67. I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

Clint Eastwood

#68. If we have drifted 10 heads above the zero line in our coin flip experiment, what is the probability of getting 10 tails in a row to return us to zero? About 1 in 1,000.

Donald G. Reinertsen

#69. Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing.
If one could drown in the grass ... it might be the best way to die.

Gregory Maguire

#70. Much to popular disbelief, horses walking around during the elections with their tails straight up in the air are not showing off their Bush/Quale buttons.

Dan Quayle

#71. Some people are like dogs, Ranga, with wagging tails. Whilst thou are happily watching their wagging tails they are happily biting thou with their sharp teeth. Beware of wagging tails, Ranga. Especially in cricket.

Ian B.G. Burns

#72. If we had tails, I think most of us would spend all day chasing them and trying to bite them off.

Stephen King

#73. It's funny: over time, if you're fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these interesting moments, and I would not, looking back, trade any of them - 'Red Tails,' '12 Years a Slave' and 'Undercover Brother.'

John Ridley

#74. Adults and pups alike, they surrounded her in the greeting ceremony, licking her face and wagging their tails. Brokefang let the girl hug him fiercely about the neck and nuzzled her in reply.

Tamora Pierce

#75. Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Gunter Grass

#76. Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

Lord Byron

#77. Comets develop their distinctive tails when their surface material begins to evaporate as they approach the Sun.

Bill Bryson

#78. The Ravenels have always been known for their volatile temperaments."
"Thank you," Gabriel said sourly. "Now I won't be surprised when my future offspring emerge with horns and tails.

Lisa Kleypas

#79. Chasing after words like trying to grab the tails of comets.

Libba Bray

#80. At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun which will come down heads or tails. How will you wager? Reason cannot make you choose either, reason cannot prove either wrong.

Blaise Pascal

#81. Even now she can't decide. She thinks about flipping a coin. Heads she goes, tails she stays. But isn't indecisiveness an early sign of mental illness?

Judy Blume

#82. Like eels in a bucket, slithering over one another and trying to bite each other's tails

Brandon Sanderson

#83. The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.

Peter Watts

#84. Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#85. I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.

Jan Hus

#86. Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it.

Masashi Kishimoto

#87. The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.

Bertrand Russell

#88. And then there's my brother Wally; he's four years younger than me, and he's the classic younger brother
a turd. The Turd is kind of like that old nursery rhyme about snails and puppy dog tails; he's got the intelligence of a slug and he's about as well house-trained as a Chihuahua.

Huston Piner

#89. Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

Ray Davies

#90. I decided at that moment that we would find a way to be together. The future was terrifying, but we would face it together ... our pelts brushing,our tails twined. Our hearts in love,forever. -CrowfeatherXLeafpool. Secrets of the Clans pg.122

Erin Hunter

#91. Rationalism crashes in the tails.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#92. The dogs had got into the graveyard and were now moving like Hoovers across the ground, their noses down, their tails up, their small dog brains consumed with the idea of uncharted territory and a thousand new scents.

Kate Atkinson

#93. Would you like to hear about the fascinating things lizards can do if you chew off their tails?

Elle Lothlorien

#94. The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

Nathalia Crane

#95. On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

Virginia Postrel

#96. Riding on the coat tails of another is denying your ability to lead your own life.

Truth Devour

#97. I've always believed that we could reach past genre
we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.

Billy Corgan

#98. Most people would say 'the deets', but I say 'the tails'. Just another example of innovation.

Aziz Ansari

#99. There were eleven months between me and Liam. We came out of her on each other's tails; one after the other, as fast as a gang-bang, as fast as an infidelity.

Anne Enright

#100. In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.

Conrad Burns