Tails Quotes - Page 11

• When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Order, Giving, Lobster

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• Eric's performance is an awesome and entirely honest expression of the pain and beauty of his music. To watch him play is like riding on the tail of a dragon, but he is so gentle with his rider, you forget how high up you are or how intense the ride is.   He is perhaps the most generous performer I have ever watched, every bit of himself is given to the audience.   He's like a Marina Abramovic with a piano, completely and deeply committed, regardless of that pain.

  Tea Leoni

  Pain, Dragons, Expression

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• 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

  Rain, Cat, Giving

  Jonathan Swift (1984). “Jonathan Swift”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Fall, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Atheist's Mass”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dog, Thinking, Doubt

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Above the forest of the parakeets,
  A parakeet of parakeets prevails,
  A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

  Wallace Stevens

  Forests, Parakeets

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Laughter, Laughing, Faces

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• You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

  Elayne Boosler

  Dog, Steps, Fats

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• Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Dog, Kindness, Wags

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• Trying to change the world is like trying to straighten the curly tail of a dog. Try as you might, it will still go hack to its natural curl. Your hands will become stronger from the exercise of trying to straighten the curly tail. Although you max' not he able to change the world, you would have acquired more spiritual strength within - and that alone will make a difference in the world.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Dog, Exercise

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.

  Moby

  Long, Sobriety, Alcohol

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was young I had this blonde haircut that was shaved on one side with a rat tail and tram lines in it, but I don't really regret that. It was really elaborate but I was 12 and it looked cool. It was like what people in Iceland do.

  Kemp Muhl

  Regret, Iceland, People

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• We're like little puppies chasing our tails. We realize we're never getting what we want and then realize we need to do something a bit more profound.

  Isha Judd

  Profound, Needs, Want

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• My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

  Paul Banks

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Firsts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

  Antonio Damasio

  Dog, Essence, Wags

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

  Pete Carroll

  Dad, Winning, Way

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• After the writers' strike, I came back with my tail between my legs and apologized to everyone. I had been telling them I was going to leave, and I said, "I'm never going to leave," and that I'd stay with them as long as I can. And I really enjoyed the last two and a half seasons of Numbers more than before.

  David Krumholtz

  Two, Numbers, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn't panning out. I began aspiring to be an "Aquamaid" at a resort called "Aquarena Springs" in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater to Ralph the Swimming Pig for an audience submerged in a "submarine".

  Elizabeth Crook

  Spring, Swimming, Eight

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• You don't have to be Willy Loman about it. But, "Airline food is crazy. Hey, what's with these rent-a-cars?" or you go up and talk about how Christopher Walken wanted to know where my dog's tail went. That really happened to me.

  Jay Mohr

  Dog, Crazy, Car

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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

  Virginia Postrel

  Curves, People, Bells

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• I get Head and Tail like a quarter... in that order.

  Lil Wayne

  Order, Quarters

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• The dog wags its tail only at living things.
  A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
  is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
  even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
  things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
  or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

  Jean Craighead George

  Dog, Butterfly, Cat

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• I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

  Billy Joel

  Musician, Legs, Want

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• Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Spring, Blue, Wind

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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