#snail

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. ↗

— Diane Lane

#anything #arrive #breath #hands #i

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#pace #philosophy #snail #you

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#perseverance #reached #snail

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#builds #children #does #easily #england

The snail pushes through a green night, for the grass is heavy with water and meets over the bright path he makes, where rain has darkened the earth's dark. He moves in a wood of desire, pale antlers barely stirring as he hunts. I cannot tell what power is at work, drenched there with purpose, knowing nothing. What is a snail's fury? All I think is that if later I parted the blades above the tunnel and saw the thin trail of broken white across litter, I would never have imagined the slow passion to that deliberate progress. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#imagination

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. ↗

— Gail Tsukiyama

#destiny #goals #life #patience #snail

The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#bottom #dips #eat #hand #into

It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#dentistry #snails #tooth #nature

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#metaphor #science #sea-lion #snail #systems-analyst

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. ↗

— Steve Burns

#congratulations #episode #every #gotta #i