Quotes About Snails

It is widely believed that the snails did not even know they overthrew the shiners, so nonexistent was the resistance," said Howard.

Why did I go back to school? After working with giant snails as the manager of an abalone farm, who wouldn't be fascinated with the inner workings of the mind? They are a very contemplative species.

Les Escargot, a gourmet restaurant run by giant snails. The food's supposed to be great, but you wouldn't believe how slow the service is.

He sat looking at it with his eyes protruding in the manner popularized by snails, looking like something stuffed by a taxidermist who had learned his job from a correspondence course and had only got as far as lesson three.

I used to delight in eating the most exotic meat on the menu: I'd have the snails, camel, squid or anything else that was going.

He had found that all snails have the capacity to do over one hundred miles per hour and find their way to a given location with pinpoint accuracy, but didn't because they were horribly lazy and couldn't be bothered.

but the air as damp as if the afternoon had been rubbed with snails.

In Valencia, when you catch snails for your paella, you feed them rosemary for a few days, both to purge them and to give them flavor.

I'll do the snails on cinnamon toast.

Just remember this, Missy, escargot ain't nothin' but snails with their noses stuck in the air.

They sold box turtles by the gross to people in Philadelphia, who used the turtles to keep cellars free of snails—a market that has declined.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

The birds that struggled to successfully locate crustaceans searched for snails and clams, with varying luck. However, a new option presented itself. An aroma pierced their nostrils, drawing their attention to a speck of light circling the island. The object was a quarter mile off, but judging by the motoring sounds, it was one of those large objects that carried clothed biped creatures across the water.