Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another. . . of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next. . . of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.
I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to tail an eighty year-old woman Its hard. Really hard. Really. . . slow. -Grabrielle
I've always believed that we could reach past genre -- we didn't ride the grunge coat-tails; we've always been on our terms.
It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is like that. Art is like that. You can't have success unless you're prepared to have failure. As soon as you say, 'failure is not an option,' you've just said, 'innovation is not an option. '
The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.
My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.
Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
People think I was born in top hat and tails.
Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.
It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing. You gotta shake your tail feathers.
I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.
[Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits. " "But my kits really like you," Daisy protested.
The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.
