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Quotes About Tail

Not everyone will wag their tail for a tyrant, but most will, if he first makes them salivate with hate and gives license to their covetous impulses by making them feel it is only their due. Many would rather take than earn.
~ Terry Goodkind
Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.
~ Bryan Davis
Would you say the shapeshifter was in distress?" "Hell yeah, he was in distress. His tail was on fire." "He ran like his tail was on fire?" "No, his tail was on fire. Like a big, furry candle on his ass.
~ Ilona Andrews
WITH HIS FIRST WAGES, FERMÍN ROMERO DE TORRES BOUGHT HIMSELF A glamorous hat and a pair of galoshes and insisted on treating me and my father to a dish of bull's tail
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
the tail of a comet can extend millionsof miles into space, always in the opposite direction of the sun, blown by the solar breeze. A comets tail is the closet thing to nothing that anything can be. I love that. The closest thing to nothing.
~ Kelly Easton
And that fox escaped with his tail between his legs, with all of the hens chasing after him
~ Isabel Allende
En este gráfico podemos ver que los géneros en sí mismos forman una larga cola, y dentro de cada género hay otra larga cola de temas individuales. Y así sucesivamente para todo el universo musical, que parece ser una misma gran curva de popularidad pero que, en realidad, son curvas dentro de curvas dentro de curvas.
~ Chris Anderson
Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense? Speed, some poison in the leaf, the tongue, the tail? A mask, flight, numbers in the millions producing numbers in the millions. A thorn here, a spike there.
~ Toni Morrison
Diagramming made language seem friendly, like a dog who doesn't bark, but, instead, trots over to greet you, wagging its tail.
~ Kitty Burns Florey
I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
~ Bertrand Russell
Firebirds are such frustating quarry. One minute it's all fiery tail feathers and red talons and the next, nothing but ash and a sore seat.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When sense has left a head, it should be called a tail.
~ Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe
brought down the roof of the doghouse, and a squeal from the dog, who had just had his tail
~ Colson Whitehead
Mrs. Jarvis, as she came out of the Rectory gate, saw him coming, and her Newfoundland dog, Nero, slowly swept his tail from side to side.
~ Virginia Woolf
You see, another thing I didn't know is that the kangaroo defends itself with its tail. It has an eight-foot tail that comes whipping up behind you when you knock the kangaroo down. And the harder I hit him, the harder and faster his tail came up behind me. I never saw that tail come whipping up behind me, and I never paid attention to the boxing glove on the tail. He had an eight-foot reach I didn't know about. Actually,
~ Charles Brandt
Eliza sitting naked on a pink towel. So beautiful I could die. Concentrating, all focused in on her sketchbook, but aw, god ...her tail. Her cute little tail moving slowly back and forth, making a fan shape in the dirt. She's the one. She really is. I know that now.
~ Charles Burns
The epigram is a scorpion; as the sting of the scorpion lieth in the tail, the force of the epigram is in its conclusion.
~ Lilio Gregorio Gyraldo
So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.
~ James Howe
The cat walked stiffly round a leg of the table with tail on high. —Mkgnao! —O, there you are, Mr Bloom said, turning from the fire. The cat mewed in answer and stalked again stiffly round a leg of the table, mewing. Just how she stalks over my writingtable. Prr. Scratch my head. Prr.
~ James Joyce
Time—the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open. They love to gaze into our faces and hearken to our discourse. It's because the very first men were lizards. If you don't believe me, go grab one by the tail and see it come right off.
~ Charles Simic
She approached with her tail up in the air and waving slowly back and forth. The fringe of hair
~ Laurien Berenson
The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.
~ Oscar Wilde
It was a half-grown puppy with long legs and a long tail, belonging to no one species, but generously distributing itself among about six.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Chapter 2 The Big Woods Back in Wisconsin, Laura looked forward to a treat that came just once a year: roasted pig tail!
~ Patricia Brennan Demuth