“Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.” WhiteHellTelevisionEatingCleanFolksCellsFedsJailVietnamTailsBailWatching Television Author:Muhammad Ali
“Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.” StuffCommonEatingCommon SenseNosesTailsHuntsTestosteroneBloodlustOffal Author:Fergus Henderson
“The society that destroys its children is eating its own tail, committing suicide in the most perverse way.” WayChildrenEatingSuicideTailsCommitting Suicide Author:Jennifer Stone
“The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!” PeopleLooksEatingVoteIronyVotingVotersTrapsTailsSnakesIdiotic Author:Steven Weber
“I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.” PeopleRealPurposeOrderEatingReal LifeTailsSnakesVampirism Author:Alan Arkin
“If they'd been dogs, they would have all been in the yard eating grass and trying to yak up whatever was making them feel so lousy. Not a bone gnawed, not a ball chased-all tails went unwagged. Oh, life is a fast cat, a short leash, a flea in that place where you just can't scratch.” IfsFeelsTryingLife IsDogEatingCatBallsBonesGrassTailsYardsScratchesFleasLeashesYaks Book:The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series Source: The Lust Lizard Of Melancholy Cove: Book 2: Pine Cove Series
“Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish.” ArtYoungForceProcessTechnologyTearsCivilizationSpeechEatingBuiltScientistChaosGoing AwayDogmaFree SpeechTailsOngoingAlchemistAthenians Author:Neal Stephenson
“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.” MeanEatingCirclesTails Book:Chime Source: Chime