I was kind of like chasing my tail and trying to do the right thing, and was a little bit stupid. Or irresponsible, which is the same thing I guess. It's just been really busy and I had a lot of great opportunities.
Robert Downey, Jr.

I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California by its golden tail, that controlled its legislature, its farmers, its preachers, its workers.
Mary Harris Jones

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.
Kinky Friedman

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

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Chuck Norris

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.
John Henry Carver

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
W. H. Auden

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Francis Quarles

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.
Kinky Friedman

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
Diana Ross

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
Lalu Prasad Yadav

'No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.
Michael Scheuer

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
John Dryden

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.
Red Barber

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.
Bob Edwards