Tails Quotes - Page 24

• I myself often feel that I have a tail in my pants. And I can see that many people do it as well, I am sure some of them simply wrap it around themselves.

  Ivan Tverdovsky

  People, Pants, Wells

  Source: collider.com

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• When you look at things like social media, that's an immensely powerful tool that I'm all in favor of. I think it's amazing. It's a powerful tool, and it's one that we're, as a species, still grappling with learning to use. It's like we've grown an extra tail and we inadvertently lash out and knock over all of the furniture.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, Thinking, Media

  Source: collider.com

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• I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.

  Chris Alexander

  Opportunity, Roles, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

  Ryan McGinley

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Coalition's message of jobs and growth is resonating very, very strongly in North and Central Queensland and one thing they're particularly fearful of is the possibility of a Green-Labor government, a government in which the Green tail wags the Labor dog.

  George Brandis

  Dog, Jobs, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.

  Iman Shumpert

  Fashion, Crazy, Shoes

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm very interested in vertical space.I want the players to listen to their sound in such a way that they hear the complete sound they make before they make another one. So that means that they hear the tail of the sound. Because of the reverberation, there's always more to the sound than just the sound.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Mean, Player, Space

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I think the record-buying public know what they like, and when people are trying to pander to them, I think they know it. They want the genuine article, so if we try to sort of "dumb down" for the mass public, I think they're too smart for that, and would recognize us as fakes. It seems like the bands that do crossover do so really on their own terms, and they just find that their terms just kind of make a big dove-tail with the masses.

  Ira Kaplan

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Long, Awkward, Moose

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.68, Trajectory Inc

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• Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice to know the option is there.

  Dov Davidoff

  Suicide, Nice, Buttons

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• What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.

  Albert Brooks

  Jobs, Nice, Taken

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• Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

  Kathy Reichs

  White, Tuxedos, Chance

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• ...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.

  Eoin Colfer

  Painful Death, Tourists, Ends

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• The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret . mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.

  Liz Kessler

  Mermaid, Secret, Different

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• Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and Brook up to Firestar. The Clan leader's eyes stretched wide in surprise. "Stormfur...and Brook! What are you doing here?" "There'll be time to explain later," Stormfur meowed. "For now, Firestar, put us to work.

  Erin Hunter

  Lying, Eye, Leader

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• Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever.

  Wilson Rawls

  Eye, Forever, Dying

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• Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hero, Fighting, Winning

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.78, Penguin

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• Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag.

  N.D. Wilson

  Children, Eye, Laughing

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• When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nice, Eye, Cutting

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• Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

  Eoin Colfer

  Humble, Genius, No Point

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident”

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• Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.

  Neal Stephenson

  Art, Technology, Civilization

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• She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her.

  John Green

  Play, Waiting, Strings

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• That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

  Ally Carter

  Dog, Spinning Around, Circles

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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• She unwrapped the blanket when she came in my door. You were inside it. She set you down on the floor and you started ranging around, picking things up, pulling my cat's tail—you screamed like a banshee when the cat scratched you, so I asked your mother if you were part banshee. She didn't laugh.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Cat, Doors

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Bones: TV Tie-in”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if they were willing to let you remove your Pride from the council's collective influence—and they won't be—there's a reason the council exists. We band together because there's strength in numbers. Because in its unperverted state, the council ensures representative government and a pooling of resources and ideas that benefits everyone." "Yes, but the operative word there is unperverted, and right now, you guys are operating under the thumb of the biggest power-pervert ever to swish his tail in the U.S. He's like Hitler with fur.

  Rachel Vincent

  Pride, Government, Ideas

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.226, MIRA

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