Tails Quotes - Page 21

• I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cities, Paris, Giving

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• People think I was born in top hat and tails.

  Fred Astaire

  Thinking, People, Top Hats

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white tails and tux like Fred Astaire, I still looked like a truck driver.

  Gene Kelly

  Strong, White, Pounds

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• Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dad, Growing Up, Father

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• The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.

  Ali Khamenei

  Iraq, Way, Traps

  "The Americans in Iraq are 'like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap'". MEMRI TV, May 2004.

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• The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Running, Knowing, People

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• When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

  Hilaire Belloc

  People, Mind, Littles

  Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) "The Elephant"

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• I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

  Gunter Grass

  Progress, Coins, Next

  "Diary of a Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.

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• When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Funny, Humor, People

  Quoted in Observer (London), 22 May 1977

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• What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Winning, Thinking, Two

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• A traveller must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.

  Thomas Nashe

  Dog, Travel, Ears

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• From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them, the 'dessertes de la table' (leftovers), or 'les parties interieures de la bete', such as head, tail, lights, liver, knuckles and feet.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Food, Light

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• 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

  Opposites, Legs, Break

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• I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.

  Rona Barrett

  Real, Cat, Iron

  "Hollywood’s Rona Barrett: Now A Senior Advocate Dynamo" by Dayna Steele, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2016.

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• If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.

  Werner Herzog

  Real, Substance, Legs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Running, Men, Gun

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• I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.

  Rumer Willis

  Coats, Feels, Wanted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood

  Tom Berenger

  School, Hollywood, Ends

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• 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

  Past, Coats, Grunge

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• After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Dog, Years, Wags

  Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.452, Open Road Media

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• Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

  Taylor Mali

  Teacher, Thinking, Needs

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit around and chat until three. Then I hunt some more until sundown, bathe again, put on white tie and tails to keep up appearances, eat a huge dinner, smoke a cigar and sleep like a log until the sun comes up again to redden the eastern sky. This is living…. Could it be more perfect?

  Annie Dillard

  Sleep, Sky, White

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• A subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship . . . . [H]is master works for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Mean, World

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• A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

  Jerry Smith

  Dog, Men, Wish

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