One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail… — Francis Bacon 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
Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. thats my dream. thats my nightmare. crawling, slithering, along the… — Colonel Kurtz 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
“The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey 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
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
It would take more than long-stemmed roses to change my view that you're a despicable cowardy custard and a disgrace to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell Copy Share Image
“It was the call for animals that have two horns that brought out the snail” — Ikechukwu Joseph Copy Share Image
A child breaks the shell of a snail but not the shell of a tortise. — African Proverb Copy Share Image
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out! — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Sometimes you watch one of your favorite shows from 20 years ago and you think, 'I'm loving this, but golly, it's going… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily. — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail…the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice. — Smokey Robinson Copy Share Image
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became… — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
