Quotes About The Tail Wagging The Dog

#1. All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.

Steve Winwood

#2. To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.

Wendell Johnson

#3. There's nothing wrong with continuous improvement and smart business tactics, but the tail is wagging the dog when market research becomes more important than technical innovation.

Eric Schmidt

#4. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Karl Marx

#5. To a dog, motoring isn't just a way of getting from here to there, it's also a thrill and an adventure. The mere jingle of car keys is enough to send most any dog into a whimpering, tail-wagging frenzy.

Jon Winokur

#6. I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me
A little chap with wagging tail, And dark brown eyes that never quail, But look you through, and through, and through, With love unspeakable and true.

John Kendrick Bangs

#7. To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

Kevin Kwan

#8. Misfortune draws people to religion and mysticism

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#9. Ceony gaped in surprise. There, wagging its little paper tail, stood a paper dog.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#10. It had been hard for months. Sleep would curl slowly around him while he was reading a book, sleep would trick him that he was awake, sleep would play the best movies.

Catherine O'Flynn

#11. If you don't understand it, it's art.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#12. Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail

Chris Murray

#13. Where Love meets action, there be God.

Todd Stocker

#14. Those were my Human Growth and Development notes, dicklick,

Rainbow Rowell

#15. Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail.

Kitty Burns Florey

#16. Now, I am a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their shoes, the smell of their legs, 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

#17. As I mentioned earlier, the diagnostic feature of life is that it captures energy to create order.

Matt Ridley

#18. 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

#19. No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail. I will always love you as only a dog can.

Eugene O'Neill

#20. Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

Joanne Harris

#21. Water wrestles great opponents,
but has no hands,
and tramples great rivals,
but has no feet.
It slips through our fingers,
but can swallow entire towns.
Wind also slips through our fingers,
but can swallow entire cities.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

Charles Darwin

#23. Oh hell. A warm, lush, naked woman coming on to him? Nothing in the military had prepared him for an onslaught like this. The never-surrender thing went right out the window, and he started waving the white flag like a dog wagging his tail.

Maya Banks

#24. In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Chuck Norris

#25. The eyes of a dog, the expression of a dog, the warmly wagging tail of a dog and the gloriously cold damp nose of a dog were in my opinion all God-given for one purpose only-to make complete fools of us human beings.

Barbara Woodhouse

#26. I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

Charles Darwin

#27. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.

Gian-Carlo Rota