Tail Quotes

Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

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.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.

Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.

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.

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.