Contemplate Quote by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“The life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant adventures as…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.

— Mary Woronov

“Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail…the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“The sentence that best expresses a snail's way of life: 'The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“As the snail's world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and so confusing.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“I liked the sound of the word 'snail' every time I said it; the word was as small and simple as the creature itself.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“There was no woodsy fragrance blowing through my room, and the snail, especially while it lived in the pot of violets, must have been…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“The snail had been a true mentor; its tiny existence had sustained me. Late one winter night I wrote in my journal: A last…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could be a…

— Burbuqe Raufi

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

— Mason Cooley

People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek shelter from…

— Rinko Kawauchi

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…

— Marlon Brando