Quotes About Snail

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

What does a snail say when he rides on the back of a turtle? "Whee!"

Ain't she the snail's ankles?' asked Mr da Soto admiringly.

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?

The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

Escargot is pretty good.

Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a snail, 'There's a porpoise close behind us and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle -- will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

One of my favorites to order in fancy restaurants is escargot.

Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail,The best man among them durst not touch her tail.She put out her horns like a little Kyloe cow,Run, tailors, run, or she'll kill you all e'en now.

Even the heart, which in higher animals, when agitated, pulsates with increased energy, in the snail under similar excitement, throbs with a slower motion.

Then it resumes, the twin wands of its horns extending, dragging its whorled shell atop the sled of its body. What do you seek, little snail? Do you live only in this one moment, or do you worry like Professor Aronnax for your future?

And then today the doctor tells us of this American who was cured of the same disease by a snail. Such a simple cure. Elegant, would you not say? A snail that accomplishes what laboratory capsules cannot. Allah, we reason, must be involved in something so elegant. So you see.

A marine snail gliding through the familiar city. Only in a dream could I move so gently along with the small human heartbeat in rhythm with the tug tug heartbeat of the tugboat, and Paris unfolding, uncurling, in beautiful undulations.

4. There is an old plastic bag from Asda in the hedge, and a squashed Coca-Cola can with a snail on it, and a long piece of orange string.

I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!

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That night, I ate... the meat of a snail person.

Don't tell anyone I said it?" I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a Frenchman's kitchen.

My parent's house, to be honest, is like a snail's disco. It's a fine house but my parents are very eccentric. Also that house might be built on an Ancient Egyptian burial ground or something, because the plague of insects that hit that house as we were growing up.

There needs no other charm, nor conjuror, To raise infernal spirits up, but Fear, That makes men pull their horns in, like a snail, That?s both a prisoner to itself and jail; Draws more fantastic shapes than in the grains Of knotted wood, in some men?s crazy brains, When all the cocks they think they are, and bulls, Are only in the insides of their skulls.

I don't understand people who travel purely gastronomically, who book a Michelin-starred restaurant three months in advance and suddenly find themselves in Copenhagen or Barcelona with a zeitgeist plate of snail porridge.