Tails Quotes - Page 19

• I think there’s no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, Trying, Administration

  "My Interview with Dick Cheney". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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• If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint of a Navy or an Air Force to have whipped us in the past 40 years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Past, Air

  "Am I Turning Into a Pervert?", November 18, 2003.

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• All along the backwater,
  Through the rushes tall,
  Ducks are a-dabbling,
  Up tails all!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Ducks, Wind In The Willows, Tall

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called a conference.

  S. J. Perelman

  Opposites, Two, Ponies

  "Strictly from Hunger". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 47-48, 1992.

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• I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our leaders to adopt sensible policies that would reduce the tail risks so that I could sell our gold, one nice thing about gold is that it doesn't even have quarterly conference calls.

  David Einhorn

  Nice, Long, Leader

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• We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Public Opinion, Experts, Mastery

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• What was it called, that symbol of the serpent eating its own tail? It probably signified infinity, endlessness, timelessness. But for me it would mean the effort to love well going on and on, round and round, always imperfect and always forgivable. The best we could ever do for each other.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Love, Mean, Effort

  Patricia Gaffney (2004). “Circle of Three”

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• Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Brother, Behinds

  'The Jungle Book' (1894) 'Road Song of the Bandar-Log'

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• 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

  Funny, Dog, Hands

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

  John Dryden

  Stubborn, Lions, England

  John Dryden, Paul Hammond, David Hopkins (2007). “Dryden: Selected Poems”, p.22, Pearson Education

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• TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Animal, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.217, 谷月社

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• Peace to these little broken leaves, That strew our common ground; That chase their tails, like silly dogs, As they go round and round. For though in winter boughs are bare, Let us not once forget Their summer glory, when these leaves Caught the great Sun in their strong net; And made him, in the lower air, Tremble - no bigger than a star!

  W. H. Davies

  Summer, Dog, Strong

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

  Stan Shih

  Entrepreneur, Cows, Chickens

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• A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

  Mark Twain

  Cat, Excellence, Persons

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• The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Men, Teeth

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Now it's our turn to kick some tail!

  Falco

  Turns, Kicks

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• A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as a symbol of the timeless libertarian paradox: Monopoly verging on feudalism emerges from unregulated competition to bite libertarianism in the posterior.

  Jedediah Purdy

  Dragons, Circles, Icons

  "The God of the Digerati". Essay in the American Prospect Magazine, prospect.org. March-April 1998.

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• Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

  C. L. R. James

  Running, Art, Cat

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• Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This, say the explanations, was the Spirit of God moving on the chaos until its breath had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its month--emblem of eternity in its spiritual and of our world in its physical sense.

  Manly Hall

  Spiritual, Moving, Dust

  Manly Palmer Hall (2005). “Secret Teachings of All Ages”, p.232, Lulu.com

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• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

  Laura Lippman

  Children, Math, Odds

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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• 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

  Light, Sky, Dawn

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.323, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Hatred, Teeth, Division

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Stars, Dark, Space

  Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.208, Seal Press

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• Say something idiotic and nobody but a dog politely wags his tail.

  Virginia Graham

  Funny, Dog, Wags

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• This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

  Charles Ferguson

  Victory, Force, Whole

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