Tail Quotes

#1. But they feel pain! They have feelings! And yet you call yourself a Celestial Spirit Mage?

Hiro Mashima

#2. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Albert Einstein

#3. Nobody likes me," he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest.
"Can't imagine why," Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough,
which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that
I didn't have any lungs.

Robin Wasserman

#4. Take the tail of the female tuna - and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.

Mark Kurlansky

#5. There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W.C. Fields

#6. We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

Ed Rendell

#7. I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

Alan Arkin

#8. My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. 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

#10. When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.

Kurt Wagner

#11. I thought that we were getting somewhere, but we're still nowhere at all. I watch your tail lights fading, I try but a tear won't fall.

Miley Cyrus

#12. A good marriage drags a long tail of memory behind it. A single word or gesture, a tone of voice can conjure up so many remembrances.

William Landay

#13. So you're gonna end this by dying, huh? Stop running away!

Hiro Mashima

#14. A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters.

Matthew Arnold

#16. Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

Miguel De Cervantes

#17. I once got my stiletto caught in my horse's tail on stage and went flying into the audience. It was a mental gig, so I think the crowd thought it was part of the show.

Alison Goldfrapp

#18. A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it, my dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.

Kurt Russell

#19. Science chases money
and money chases its tail
and the best minds of my generation can't make bail.
But the bacteria are coming
that's my prediction.
It's the answer to this culture
of the quick-fix prescription.

Ani DiFranco

#20. Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail

Hiro Mashima

#21. The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

John Lyly

#22. Goosekit whimpered and buried his nose under his thick gray tail. The

Erin Hunter

#23. His friends he loved. His direst earthly foe - Cats-I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, Mine eyes the tail that wagged contempt at Fate.

William Watson

#24. Do you really hate being around me so much now that you'd high tail it away from me when you can barely stand?

Nicole Williams

#25. The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Charles Lamb

#26. The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times, chased her tail just to teach it who was boss, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.

Rick Riordan

#27. Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes
and calls it his pride.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#28. You'd put our parents at risk for some piece of tail?" Ghleanna demanded.
"She saved my life."
"You can fight your own battles!"
"Not when I'm knocked out on my ass!"
"You mean knocked out on your fat ass!"
"My ass, like the rest of me, is perfection!

G.A. Aiken

#29. Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.

Peter Jackson

#30. It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.

Stan Shih

#31. Living as human being and as a divinity.
moving from tension into relaxation,
from relaxation into trance,
from trance into a more intense contact with other people.
from that contact back into tension and so on,
Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail.

Paulo Coelho

#32. We are not just tickling the dragon's tail; we are timing a flyby through its open jaws while it is yawning.

Marko Kloos

#33. Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#34. I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

Bill Bryson

#35. I should have known you were no better than the rest of them. You are only a man, you do not have the ability to control yourself, but she," Lady Catherine nodded sagely, "she knew exactly what she was doing. Fluffing her feathers and shaking her tail for you! It was disgraceful!

Elizabeth Adams

#36. A poem doesn't come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.

Franny Billingsley

#37. Henry was wholly preoccupied with the farm. I would have gotten more notice from him if I'd grown a tail and started to bray.

Hillary Jordan

#38. The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

John Ray

#39. Tracked the kits' trail and it met another. The heather was drenched with Tom's scent. Turtle Tail recognized it at once.

Erin Hunter

#40. Retaliation is a dog chasing its tail

Libba Bray

#41. Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.

Kevin Plank

#42. Benny Retzel, a private operative in the employ of the Mutual Protective Agency: Divorce Evidence Our Specialty - You Marry 'Em, We Tail 'Em.

Brett Halliday

#43. 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

#44. As a storyteller, I appreciate a great tale. As a cat lover, I appreciate a great tail.

Jarod Kintz

#45. Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. "Y"know, old fellow," he once told Martin,"if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn't lash it!

Georgette Heyer

#46. Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf 's tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world.

Terry Tempest Williams

#47. A female dragon's tail is of the utmost importance to her. Male dragons find them irresistible. After all where do you think the term 'Getting some tail' came from?

Sully Tarnish

#48. I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

Jonathan Tropper

#49. I am the serpent that devours her own tail--her own tale. If you tell a tale well enough, it becomes a path to follow. I shed my skin and begin again.

Mary Sharratt

#50. Life was the cat that dragged the parrot downstairs by its tail; his head banged against every step.

Julian Barnes

#51. Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

Muhammad Ali

#52. Demodox folliculorum has eight stumpy legs and a tail, is about a third of millimeter long, and loves nothing more than to recline in the warm, oily pits of your hair follicles. Most adults have this mite, usually on the head and especially in eyelashes, and often in nipples.

Karl Shaw

#53. Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Heinrich Heine

#54. I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

Ali Smith

#55. Dieter walked a little ahead of the other actors, murmuring to his favourite horse. The horse, Bernstein, was missing half his tail, because the first cello had just restrung his bow last week.

Emily St. John Mandel

#56. The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.

Oscar Wilde

#57. I've got my warrior name, too!" Crookedjaw?" How did you guess?" A purr rumbled in his throat. Beacuse your tail's still straight.

Erin Hunter

#58. Listeria ... secretes two or three proteins that together hijack the host cell's cytoskeleton. As a result, the bacteria motor around the inside of the infected cell, pushed by an actin 'comet tail' that associates and dissociates behind them.

Nick Lane

#59. Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

John Lahr

#60. One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it.

Rob Machado

#61. That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

Martial

#62. 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

#63. She's really gone, then. The little girl with the back of her shirt sticking out like a duck tail,

Suzanne Collins

#64. Our dog had an ingrown tail, we had to X-ray him to find out if he was happy. I

Stephen King

#65. In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy ... to wit
the wag of a dog's tail.

Josh Billings

#66. If you catch a tiger by its tail all you have caught is a tail. And nothing else.

Angel Propps

#67. Does that mean you are going to talk with Tallstar?" Fireheart asked bravely. His leader's tail lashed again. "I will talk," she meowed. "But if there is no agreement, then we will fight.

Erin Hunter

#68. When God blesses you, not only will He bless you personally, but He will bless your family, your field, your crops, and your land. According to Deuteronomy 28, God will take you who used to be the tail and make you the head.

T.D. Jakes

#69. I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Victor Hugo

#70. With Mr. Wright, you just grab hold of the tail of the kite. If you can hang on, you're going to go places never thought possible.

Nancy Horan

#71. I am Billy Dean. This is the truth. This is my tail.

David Almond

#72. Cats don't have shoulders, not like people do. But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that started at the tip of it's tail and ended in a raised movement of its whiskers.

Neil Gaiman

#73. Oh! Worm! Seth pounced, squealing when his teeth sank into his
own tail. Ow! That hurt!

Eden Winters

#74. 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

#75. I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash ... you add a longer tail ... you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly.

Erma Bombeck

#76. They were huge, six feet long not including the tail, and as high as my belly at their shoulders. Their entirely human eyes shone, as did their bared fangs.

Jim Butcher

#77. A cat's tail waved above the arm of the couch like an elegant hand in a black glove waving goodbye.

Heather O'Neill

#78. So much for a great opening speech, that sucker done tucked tail and is hiding in the deepest part of my brain, sucking its thumb.

Brandy Nacole

#79. Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me.

Plutarch

#80. The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.

Kathryn Lasky

#81. Travelling with a tail-end ball club is the poorest pastime in the world. I would rather ride in the first coach of a funeral procession.

Christy Mathewson

#82. My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#83. It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")

Cornell Woolrich

#84. 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

#85. The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#86. I don't want ... to run away by myself ... because no matter what ... I'd rather be together with everyone ...

Hiro Mashima

#87. 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

#88. Be thou comforted,little dog;thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Martin Luther

#89. That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

Austin O'Malley

#90. Tigerclaw flicked his tail. How who were?

Erin Hunter

#91. The mechanimal sat back on his haunches and sent a puff of smoke at her, tail wagging back and forth hopefully.

Gail Carriger

#92. It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Rudyard Kipling

#93. I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Mario Batali

#94. I'm a rat. I used to believe in the Golden Rule but now question it. It's too easy to be snarky at those who are snarky toward me. I like how it feels - the yellow cheese giving way between pointed teeth. My tail begins to twitch.

Chila Woychik

#95. I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail while scuba diving. I like to throw myself fully into projects and adventures, which is probably how I managed to publish a book in the first place.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#96. People are either wind in your or an anchor on your tail.

Joe Charboneau

#97. I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian.

Gary Gulman

#98. I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

Patti Smith

#99. In 2008, I was the woman who thought she had the world by the tail: the "perfect life."
In 2010, I was the woman without hope who thought she had no life left to live.
Which woman am I today? Neither. Both were illusions.

Julie-Anne

#100. I gave the wretched beast a look that said plainly I'll deal with you later.
He flicked his tail at me, cat-speak for Do I look like I'm bothered?

J.L. Merrow