Limpet Quotes

#1. I am your boat! I am your crew
Your rudder and your mast -
Your friend, I am your limpet too
And your elastoplast.
- Tintinnabulum

Mervyn Peake

#2. It was like a bit of flypaper stuck to your finger that you couldn't shake off. The bloody thing clung to life like a limpet.

Alan Bradley

#3. Try to prise a limpet away from its rock and it will cling all the harder.

Jeremy Holmes

#4. How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention.

Janet Fitch

#5. I feel like Superbad and Freaks And Geeks are somewhat timeless. That's always gratifying, when you feel like 30 years in the future, people will still get it, and it won't seem creaky. It won't come across like The Incredible Mr. Limpet.

Judd Apatow

#6. She would seize every opportunity to dive into the bathroom, in a swirl of white towels, and once in there she was as hard to dislodge as a limpet from a rock.

Gerald Durrell

#7. Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe
he has no other
and that instrument is reason.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them?

K.J. Parker

#9. If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

Rob Walton

#10. Look in the mirror. What is that thing reflected capable of?

Krystal Marie Hamlin

#11. I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Catherine Deneuve

#12. Life doesn't stop for anybody

Stephen Chbosky

#13. This fills me with anger, although I already know that it is in the normal order of things that the privileged oppress the unprivileged: the social structure of the camp is based on this human law.

Primo Levi

#14. I realized early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job. Because there are no pay grades and very little structure, people make interesting assumptions about the profession.

Sara Sheridan

#15. Becoming a true horseman is learning what to do at that moment when things start to unravel.

Thomas Nye