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The snail's pace at which women are making their way into corporate boardrooms is simply not acceptable.

Vicki Kramer

I usually describe it as, 'Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are snails, salt, pipe and how to get home -- as tormented by a hubristic, racist inner psyche,'.

Crispin Glover

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: 'By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth.

Ambrose Bierce

It's hard to say how far they walked. They were in the forest for nine months, eating snails and leaves and whatever they could get.

David Brandon

Darwin stuck snails on ducks' feet and submerged them in seawater and found them to die quickly on exposure.

Richard Preece

Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous distances by hitching rides on birds.

Richard Preece

To date and going forward, relocation of the snails from Mount Augustus will cost us in the vicinity of ... NZ$2 million (US$1.2 million). That's $8,000 (US$4,900) a head.

Vicki Blyth

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

Eric Johnston