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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.
The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.
What sells a book sells a book, same in traditional or self-publishing . You gotta shake your tail feathers.
I really am genuinely happy for guys that get paid and have success when they actually work their tails off.
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.
The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in a trap.
The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.
Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity
With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
Razo was sorely tempted to assert that all was true and he'd lost his horns and tail in a tragic childhood accident
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
I've never wanted to just ride on coat tails. I don't know, if you don't earn something then it doesn't feel as good.
Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.
You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.
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.
But one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.
Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.
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.
If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession - I'm really targeting a niche market here - a hair lip.
The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.
Our folks at the FBI are working their tails off every day to stop and find criminals, terrorists, and nation-state adversaries.
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.
A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red Tails' has.
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.
I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me; and many other visions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.
If your project has real substance, ultimately the money will follow you like a common cur in the street with its tail between its legs.
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me.
'I've got my warrior name, too!' - 'Crookedjaw?' - 'How did you guess?' A purr rumbled in his throat. 'Beacuse your tail's still straight.'
I love the horse from hoof to head. From head to hoof and tail to mane. I love the horse as I have said - From head to hoof and back again.
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.
What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.
The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on my tail.