76 Quotes About Tails

  • Author John Dryden
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    By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

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  • Author Bob Edwards
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    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.

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  • Author Oriana Fallaci
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    America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

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  • Author Robert Frost
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    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.

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  • Author John Green
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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.

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  • Author William H. Gass
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    The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.

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