Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor. — George Will Copy Share Image
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" -… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking;… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image