Snail Quotes

79 quotes by 75 authors

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. — William Shakespeare
I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you… — Steve Burns
Negroes don't even like snails! What they're doing is proving they're integrated. — Malcolm X
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;… — Anne Sexton
In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a… — Susan Cain
We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf. — Stanislaw Lem
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a… — Marlon Brando
Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. — George Carlin
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on… — Mary Ruefle
In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude… — Constantin Stanislavski
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and… — Allan Bloom
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass… — Celia Thaxter
Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to… — Mahatma Gandhi
Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. — Gail Tsukiyama
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
Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among millions of snails… — Stephen Jay Gould
My taste includes both snails and oysters. — Marcus Licinius Crassus
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace. — Edwin Way Teale
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you… — Simon Birch
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by. — Eric Johnston

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