Schwanz / Tail Zitate auf Englisch

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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. Arnold J. Toynbee

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

It's not easy not getting playing time, but you have to keep showing up and working your tail off to be ready.

Kelley O'Hara

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

Red Barber

We've been working our tail off and lead by that example.

Ed Rendell

To anger female voters in America is to tread on the tiger's tail. Women turn out in huge numbers, and they are well aware of how their bodies work and what they need.

Henry Rollins

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

Mark Twain

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Martin Luther

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Davy Crockett

Do I believe in the devil? I don't believe in a figure with horns and a tail.

Anthony Horowitz

I think there's no question but what the tail end of the Bush administration, Bush-Cheney administration, that we took steps specifically geared to try and free up the financial sector.

Dick Cheney

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

Thomas Hood

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Leonardo da Vinci

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

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

W. H. Auden

The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you.

Deng Ming-Dao

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

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

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Mario Batali

Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.

George Will

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

Princess Anne

Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

Katha Pollitt

I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.

Tom Berenger

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

All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.

Steve Winwood

And so they pitched the show to me. It sounded like a good idea. We pitched the show back, and got it sold and got it on the air. And that's kicking the tail.

Judge Mills Lane

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.

Sting

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

T. E. Lawrence

Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

Sam Shepard

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Rosecrans Baldwin

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.

Henry Williamson

I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

Valerie June

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

W. C. Fields

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.

John G. Diefenbaker

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

William Cowper