Generous Quote by Dave Barry

There was a time when people thought our hosts weren't collecting and remitting taxes, and we've been very proactive about going out and trying…

— Belinda Johnson

Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality. “You mean,” said Fighting Prawn, “for not killing you?” “Yes,” said Leonard.…

— Dave Barry

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As I glided further into the dusty mollusk volumes, I discovered that gastropods - which account for 80 percent of all mollusks - are…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them…

— Anthony Doerr

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is…

— Russell Sherman

I'm interested in other animals too though. There's the slug in "Mollusks", and I wrote a story about bees and one about a cat…

— Arthur Bradford

We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. ……

— Murray Bookchin

Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony…

— Oriana Fallaci

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately…

— Edward Forbes

If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant…

— Lewis Thomas

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys…

— Charles Baudelaire

What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us…

— Steven Pinker

Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink…

— Kuki Gallmann

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned,…

— Ridley Pearson