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I acknowledge to myself that sometimes I am a snail. I move myself by gliding. I contract my muscles and produce a slime of tears. Sometimes you see the tears and sometimes you don't. It is my tears that allow me to glide.
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 straight razor and surviving.
It is widely believed that the snails did not even know they overthrew the shiners, so nonexistent was the resistance, said Howard.
I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.
I've never sexually molested a gastropod.
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
A turtle does come in it's own bowl
Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms
so familiar at this time of year
can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.
Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!
Since we're all snails riding on the razor's edge, we might as well say it as it is.
Even the heart, which in higher animals, when agitated, pulsates with increased energy, in the snail under similar excitement, throbs with a slower motion.
I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!
Time and patience would bring a snail to America,' he repeated.
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.
only a silkworm.
They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms.
And Hortensio falls asleep happily and starts snoring, although nobody could hear him snoring, because nobody can hear the noises that snails make, all around the world.
Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.
The Mollusks - generous hosts when they weren't trying to kill you.
Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.
I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.
pocket lizard licker.
A snail will never take a plunge in a river to find refreshment; I am refreshed wherever I am located for my source is Elshaddai...
A slug is always on its own. It is a lonely insect.
Who has more leisure than a worm?
A slug has its bottom in its head.
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Only an uncouth person would wear snail snot- Albert
James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.
The snails on the pink sleds of their bodies are moving
among the morning glories
The spider is asleep among the red thumbs
of the raspberries.
But I go back down near the water with Steppa to look for treasure. We find a white shell like a snail, but when I curl my finger inside, he's gone out. "Keep it," say Steppa. "But what about when he comes home?
Appleblossom can't believe the taste of the dark square. Is tehre a way to describe this morsel of goodness? It is so sweet adn smooth. It makes a green snail seem like an old pinecone seed, and every possum knows that a green snail is fantastic eating.
Crabs, crabs, crabs. Crabs the size of beach donkeys.
It's turtles all the way down.
A little roving, solitary thing.
There's this sloth in the jungle walking from one tree to another, and it's mugged by a gang of snails, and when the police ask the sloth if it could identify any of its attackers, it says, 'I don't know; it all happened so quickly...
What has crawled up your butt and died? (Tabitha)
As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.
A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.
Don't insult me. Everyone knows a turtle is a crustacean on its mother's side.
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle
Sandworms ... you know I hate 'em!
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.
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.
fishhook. It's squiggly like a worm. Something's
That would be the gentleman lobster,
Big worms that move through the sand like it's water." Roger's level arm went up and down in a smooth wave. "Or the big thing in Star Wars. What if we step down there and the sand just turns into a big pit with a mouth at the bottom?" "For the record, it's called a Sarlacc," Xela said.
For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.
I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.
E canchis amnia.
Everything from shells.
The turtle whose head
Is within his shell
Thinks the world outside
Is going well.
Given the choice between grabbing a strange tongue and watching a monster poop into a giant snail shell, the face retreats and slams the door behind it
All but blind In his chambered hole Gropes for worms The four-clawed Mole.
A large grey stone lay in the centre of the grass and he stared moodily at it or watched the great snails. They seemed to love the little shut-in bay with its walls of cool rock, and there were many of them of huge size crawling slowly and stickily along its sides.
The duck swallows the worm
A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.
Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure?
It's an alien."
"Sand crab," Leon said. "It won't hurt you."
"It sure is ugly."
"Ugly never hurt a thing."
I scoffed. "Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It's just that pretty hurts more."
"Amen.
was a parasite with nasty teeth,
Now about this turtle.
I think I'm gonna name it Oliver."
"Why's that?"
"Because he's leaving little turtle poop 'Oliver' his terrarium.
Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once? A centipede with a clubfoot.
A detestable, viscous place populated by slugs
In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...
What has three eyes,
three nipples and two assholes?
Rather than studying the most complex form of memory in a very complicated animal, we had to take the most simple form - an implicit form of memory - in a very simple animal. So I began to look around for very simple animals. And I focused in on the marine snail Aplysia.
What the hell is a SpongeBob?
I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.
What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?
Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not
I am nothing but a miserable, crushed worm, whom no one wants, whom no one loves, a useless creature with morning sickness, and abig belly, two rotten teeth, and a bad temper, a battered sense of dignity, and a love which nobody wants and which nearly drives me insane.
People think hermit crabs are cute, but I can't think of anything creepier. Some dead thing's shell, with legs poking out of it. Scuttling. Feeding on corpses. Living in a borrowed skin of death.
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
THE GRACKLE
The
There is an animal inside me,
clutching fast to my heart,
a huge crab.
I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.
voluptuous sluggard,
The turtle moves.
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.
The large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
Earthworms will dance
Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.
My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human.
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
I am I, with all the individuality of an earthworm. After a rain, who knows the unique pink worm by the twist of its elastic segments. Only the guts of the worm know. And it is nothing to crush the yellow liquid intestines under a casual heel.
In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.
Far from being the rock or island in the Simon and Garfunkel song, it turns out that the best metaphor to describe the human body is 'sponge.
The one-legged creature is envious of the millipede; the millipede is envious of the snake; the snake is envious of the wind; the wind is envious of the eye; the eye is envious of the heart.
He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.
Worms are the intestines of the earth.
a creature of impulse.
Every morning there were silver snail trails crisscrossing the hall. There were cobwebs like soft clouds and pepperings of mold at the windowsills. The moor was coming inside.
The otter's picnic ground is a large rock where we always find empty turtle shells. It is rather sad, but I can't help thinking how conveniently packaged a turtle is to an otter. Like a kind of Big Mac in a crushproof box.
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.
about four inches down, he suddenly came into a small chamber in the cool-damp sand and there lay eggs, many eggs, almost perfectly round eggs the size of table tennis balls, and he laughed then because he knew. It had been a turtle.
Oysters followed
I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.
The sluggard is a living insensible.