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Quotes About Tail

The Arizona team named the crater after an unfortunately hard-to-pronounce small nearby fishing harbor, Chicxulub Puerto, which is located above the center of the structure. The term, which is pronounced CHICK-shuh-lube, is sometimes translated as the devil's tail—appropriately enough for the imposing feature that Walter Alvarez dubbed the "crater of doom.
~ Lisa Randall
No chickens." "Zebras?" Maggie Rose asked. Mom laughed. "Crocodiles? Anteaters? Giraffes?" Bryan guessed. All the humans in the car were laughing, so I wagged. People don't have tails to let others know they're happy, but laughter is the next best thing.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
pretending that Shiloh's a bear, tryin' to get in. The more they squeal, the more Shiloh wiggles about, tryin' to get his nose under the edge of the sheet, tail going ninety miles an hour. If that dog had wings, he'd fly, except his propeller would be on the wrong end.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
That's a fox. His tail alone proves it.
~ Dean Koontz
The fox rises, changes position, sits on his hindquarters, his glorious tail
~ Dean Koontz
Cats will knead their paws to show they are happy; they will purr too. If a cat is pleased to see someone, it will pull its tail up vertically; however, if a cat is wagging its tail, unlike a dog, it means that it is angry!
~ Unknown
You see, Minka, my father would say. Anything is possible. Even the most terrible beast might one day be a distant memory. He would hold my hand in his, tracing my finger along the brightest stars in the constellation. Look, he would say. There is the head, and the tail. There's the heart.
~ Jodi Picoult
Vanessa stood on the stage now giving out CDs and T-shirts to outstretched hands. She was dressed as a devil, in a slinky red dress. Glitter made her perfect tanned skin shine. Her blond hair was held back by devil horns and a long sinuous tail twitched behind her. She had lined her large blue eyes with tiny silver gems for this night.
~ Lynne Ewing
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
~ John Dryden
sideways as Kate struggled to tighten his girth. His long, black mane rippled in waves down his muscular neck; his tail almost touched the ground.
~ Unknown
Its Scaled hide was dull brown That fitted in well with our surrounding, and its eyes a disturbing crimson. The low slung body featured powerful legs ending in scythelike claws anda long, flexible tail that moved hypnotically back and forth, like a cat's. Just behind its shoulders a pair of vestigial wings shifted and settled.
~ Marie Brennan
tall, gangly boy stumbled through a swinging door with a burlap cloth in his arms, the tail of a fish wagging out the end. "Loafhead! Where's my cod? I'm to make stew with a crappie?" She grabbed the fish from him anyway, slapped it down on the butcher block, and with one decisive chop, whacked its head off with a cleaver. I guessed the crappie would do. So
~ Mary E. Pearson
He was insinuating, he was always around, he was like a cat in a bookstore window, letting his tail slowly drape across all the books as he wandered by.
~ Meg Wolitzer
We should be afraid. Not of intelligent machines. But of machines making decisions that they do not have the intelligence to make. I am far more afraid of machine stupidity than of machine intelligence. Machine stupidity creates a tail risk. Machines can make many many good decisions and then one day fail spectacularly on a tail event that did not appear in their training data. This is the difference between specific and general intelligence.
~ Unknown
Rap beat from the sound of the engine tuk so tuvrum tuvrum tuk so vroom vroom vroom vroom so Tuuuu dum tuu tuu tutu tutu dum. Vanity is an open bird's tail from the included spotlights.
~ Unknown
The black cat padded in, raised its tail in greeting to Socrates, and jumped onto the lay brother's lap.
~ Unknown
Werewolves usually have markings that are more doglike than wolflike. I don't know why. Bran, the Marrok, has a splash of white on his tail, as though he'd dipped it in a bucket of paint. I think it's cute—but I'd never had the nerve to tell him so.
~ Patricia Briggs