Turtle Shell Quotes

#1. The other [video game] franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell.

Jeff Ryan

#2. I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

Garry Shandling

#3. See the turtle of enormous girth, on his shell he holds the earth. If you want to run and play, come along the beam today.

Stephen King

#4. But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.

Jandy Nelson

#5. this was exactly what he did: became a turtle, all hard shell. It was the perfect protection, the perfect weapon. She lost every time. She understood that

Gayle Forman

#6. A rat is more alive than a turtle.
A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin

Leonard Cohen

#7. Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.

John Foster Dulles

#8. Of course, no other world was carried through the starry infinity on the backs of four giant elephants, who were themselves perched on the shell of a giant turtle.

Terry Pratchett

#9. A Man Needs A Woman Like A Turtle Needs A Shell on His Back" SINGLE AGAIN by Rod Cornelius

Rod Cornelius

#10. Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.
from the book 'I Know Who You Are!

Mariam Masood

#11. The turtle whose head
Is within his shell
Thinks the world outside
Is going well.

Carol Kendall

#12. Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world.

Kate DiCamillo

#13. 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.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot ...

Bisco Hatori

#15. I swoon into a standing eight count. Goddamn, I actually feel my consciousness want to detach and hide like a turtle retreating into a hopelessly soft shell that won't save anyone.

Paul Tremblay

#16. If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

George Carlin

#17. And here's to the blues, the real blues - where there's a hint of hope in every cry of desperation.

David Mutti Clark

#18. Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

Charles Ghigna

#19. Passive resistance is better than active acts of stupidity.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#20. What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?

Naomi Shihab Nye

#21. Fear of men's judgment manifests itself in competition for men's approval.

Ezra Taft Benson

#22. Ah, but would we not all be the fools to attack an armored turtle through its shell?

R.A. Salvatore

#23. Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Masefield

#24. It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Eileen Wilks

#25. Your friend the Turtle... He died a few years ago. The old idiot puked inside his shell and choked to death on a galaxy or two. Very sad, don't you think? But also quite bizarre.

Stephen King

#26. It remains an irrefragable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

Stefan Zweig

#27. When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.

Radhanath Swami

#28. Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

Barbara Mertz

#29. A turtle without a shell is a very strange thing. Even with shells, turtles are very strange things, with their miniature elephant's feet, parrot's beak and ludicrous tail.
-pg 30

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#30. Every moment is a new beginning.

Elie Wiesel

#31. My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

Malcolm Gladwell

#32. History, the way the teachers liked it, was a racetrack, a straight shot from start to finish line; life itself was more of a maze.

Cassandra Clare

#33. Elegant presents soon followed. Leather luggage for Jesse's travels and a lovely mink-lined coat to keep her warm in the 'abominable British weather.' It is a country 'only a Druid could love,' Maharet wrote.

Anne Rice

#34. If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

Steven Wright

#35. The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ...

Harriet Martineau

#36. Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

Bill Copeland