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  • Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail. Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail, Eat a whole fish except for the tail. Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale, And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails.

    Rap   Hip Hop   Gold  
    Song: On the Bugged Tip, Album: Long Live the Kane
  • 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.

    Oysters   Shrimp   Matter  
    Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Being and Nothingness”, p.617, Open Road Media
  • The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

    "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.
  • Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle and in the balmiest tropics; it also grows on the fur of sloths, on the backs of snails, on decaying human bones. ... It is a resurrection engine. A single clump of mosses can lie dormant and dry for forty years at a stretch, and then vault back again into life with a mere soaking of water.

    Lying   Years   Circles  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.169, A&C Black
  • The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

    Dna   Culture   Shells  
  • Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in trouble for it, I got suspended for doing it. For saving the snails I kept about four or five hundred of them at the back of the class -- in Snail Land. We were like six or seven or something, people didn't even realise what they were doing. I had a strange compassion for snails. And the teacher just chucked them all in the trash in the end.

  • I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

    Song   Want   Might  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.

  • History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

    Clouds   Sky   People  
    R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.54, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

  • The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

    Girl   Art   Law  
    George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

  • In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

    Track   Photograph   Blur  
    Wright Morris (1989). “Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory”
  • This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.

    Funny   Sexy   Humorous  
  • I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail.

    Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.141
  • It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

    Animal   Shells   Slime  
    Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.7, Applewood Books
  • Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

  • Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways.

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.

    Eye   Men   Light  
  • It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.

  • Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

    Selfish   Long   People  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.24, Penguin Books India
  • I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.

    Girl   Heart   Slugs  
  • I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement.

  • Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

    Honesty   Nintendo   Salt  
  • In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good.

    Fire   Littles   Taste  
  • Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

  • Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else.

    Clouds   Silence   Tree  
    Wendell Berry (2013). “This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012”, p.219, Counterpoint
  • A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

    New York   Children   Men  
    MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31
  • We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.

  • Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

    Simple   Sea   Support  
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