Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bess Truman

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

Charlie Munger

Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you stop learning in this world, the world rushes right by you.

Bruce Feiler

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

Demetri Martin

I wanna put stickers on turtles... I don't know why.

Dana Carvey

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

Arthur Miller

But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.

Bobby Darin

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

Dwyane Wade

A turtleneck is about sophistication.

Christopher Moore

Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Dr. Seuss

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

Dr. Seuss

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

Dane Cook

Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.

Anna Olson

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

Amy Tan

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

Eddie Campbell

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

Heinrich Heine

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

James Bryant Conant

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

George Carlin

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

Etgar Keret

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

Mike Dirnt

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

Gwen Stefani

What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God’s sake, don’t say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.

Lewis Carroll

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

Lewis Carroll

Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?

Peter Kreeft

On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

Paul Giamatti

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

Harvey Mackay

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Lord Byron

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Stephen King

The turtle couldn't help us.

Robbie Amell

I grew up watching 'Power Rangers,' 'Ninja Turtles', 'Batman.' You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers.

Russell Hoban

The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.

Walter Benjamin

There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

Kevin J. Anderson

When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.