Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Buffalo Bill

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Billy Joel

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

Beatrix Potter

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Ally Carter

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

Daddy Yankee

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

A. A. Milne

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Christopher Paolini

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

George Orwell

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Garth Nix

Unhand my tail!" squealed the Will.

Jeff Grubb

Back when we started this at the tail end of 'Eye of the North,' Ree Soesbee and I worked out 250 years of timeline between the end of 'Eye of the North' and the beginning of 'Guild Wars 2.'

A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail

I've got a tiger by the tail and I don't know what to do with it.

Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Jay Baruchel

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

John Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Jonathan Ive

but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition.

Mitt Romney

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

Isak Dinesen

Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

Mason Cooley

Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part.

Kyle Petty

You had life by the tail and didn't know it.

John Barrymore

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

Waris Ahluwalia

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

Ron Perlman

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

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

Victor Hugo

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Thomas Hood

Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

Tony Stewart

One way or the other, we?ve always got to chase our tails....