The very long tail of the future is already here.
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. '
Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.
Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity
That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but. . . most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers.
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail. I couldn't help but smile.
Tuck in your tail, little duck.
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.
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.
It's better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a cow.
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass. . . it might be the best way to die.
The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and sweet, And a sting should be felt in its tail.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.