logo

Quotes About Tail

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
Mark that it is dangerous. Trouble has a very long tail.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Ledge Birds that love high trees and winds and riding flailing branches hate ledges as gripless and narrow, so that a tail is not just no advantage but ridiculous, mashed vertical against the wall. You will have seen the way a bird who falls on skimpy places lifts into the air again in seconds -- a gift denied the rest of us when our portion isn't generous.
~ Kay Ryan
As I turned around, I felt another brushing sensation, this one not nearly as intense but even odder. My tail. It was off to the side and I couldn't really get a good look at it. So how could I move--? My tail swung. Okay, that was easy. I took a closer look. It was thick and over half the length of my body. When I thought of moving it, it moved. Very convenient.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Her dog, Skip, followed them, but Sim threw stones at him, and after one hit him full on the nose, he retreated with his tail between his legs. After
~ Ken Follett
flight, its upper and lower wings spread wide, its toy-car wheels resting lightly on the grass, its long tail tapering behind. The weather was fine with gentle breezes, and the little aircraft trembled in the wind
~ Ken Follett
The objective, when you have cancer and want to combat fatality, is to make sure you find yourself in the long tail of the curve.
~ David Servan-Schreiber
That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.
~ Ally Carter
First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail
~ Ally Carter
Once is a stranger; twice is a coincidence; three times is a tail.
~ Ally Carter
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
~ Fran Lebowitz
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.
~ Jean-Claude Duvalier
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
~ Francis Quarles
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
~ John Dryden
I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.
~ Ron Perlman
And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.
~ Judge Mills Lane
I'm Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy.
~ LeAnn Rimes
There's something majestic about a 30-pound Chinook salmon roasted and served whole - people get excited when you present it with the head and tail on. It has beautifully browned skin and extraordinary bright red flesh when you cut into it.
~ Tom Douglas
We're very clear in the race that priority will be given to the lead car and more risk will be taken with the tail car. Sometimes that will work out, sometimes it won't, but it's very clear going into the event that those are the rules of engagement.
~ Christian Horner
I don't want to do 85 scenes in a film that has no head or tail.
~ Kashmira Shah
I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
~ Christopher Walken
The little pig began to pray But Wolfie blew his house away. He shouted, Bacon, Pork, and Ham! Oh what a lucky wolf I am! And though he ate the pig quite fast, He carefully kept the tail till last.
~ Roald Dahl
He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
~ Robert Frost