Snail Quotations

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

Getting snail mail is one of my favorite indulgences, and I think receiving mail is actually a common joy.

Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

I am this fiery snail crawling home.

Since I was interested in comic books, I got a job working at the Silver Snail comic book shop here in Toronto; which I suppose a lot of people do.

Relevance to Alzheimer's? I don't know, ... It's a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer's is currently obscure.

We hope the ""real"" person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell.

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

I'm very relieved not to be carrying the burden around, the big snail shell. Because it sometimes does feel like a big weight. The pressure of expectation is just too big. The whole Pink Floyd name, carting it around ... I don't want to be there at the moment.

I have to confess I'm addicted to Sky Sports News. Just the music can pull me in. And then whether it's badminton in the Czech Republic, snail pushing or mole hopping, I'm hooked.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.

Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated.