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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there. -- Eddie Campbell
Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean. -- Natalie Gulbis
Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today. -- Greg Cipes
I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport. -- Bode Miller
Turtle makes all men equal. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle! -- Dana Carvey
Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh? -- Harper Lee
Star, pillows don't attack dogs," Sam said."Or anything else," Turtle added. -- Jennifer Priester
Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle. -- Demetri Martin
Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it. -- Ted Kooser
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity. -- Gene Luen Yang
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. -- Lewis Carroll
Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach. -- Ellen Raskin
The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry. -- Gene Luen Yang
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare. -- Ellen Raskin
Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. "How do you know a match don't hurt him?" "Turtles can't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Where you ever a turtle, huh? -- Harper Lee
In the Tunnel of Desire, past the Tube of Destiny, lies the Turtle of Doubt. We all have to face that turtle, but only the confident ones ever find out that doubt tastes like chicken. -- Jarod Kintz
I think the law as it is today probably does prohibit an off-reservation casino, but there is uniqueness to Turtle Mountain and there is uniqueness to the state, and these things need to be looked at. -- Bill Johnson
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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out. -- Lou Gerstner
Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause. -- Bruce Feiler
You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. -- Paul Giamatti
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. -- James Bryant Conant
Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. -- Bill Copeland
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. -- Alex Haley
Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs. -- Brian P. Cleary
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends. -- Alice Morse Earle
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite. -- Craig Brown
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. -- Bobby Darin
Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young. -- Iris Apfel
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas. -- Aaron Spelling
Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose. -- Brian Skerry
All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle. -- John Hersey
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
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.' -- Demetri Martin
Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up. -- Keiko Agena
Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that. -- Will Hobbs
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. -- Khaled Hosseini
When I come to Chicago, I gorge myself. I get off the plane and start with Gene and Jude's for two hot dogs with everything, swing by The Fudge Pot for a taffy apple and a turtle, chocolate clusters at Sarah's Pastries and Candies and steak at Smith and Wollensky. I find time for Gino's pizza within the next 12 hours. -- James Belushi
After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, 'We're about to shoot 'Ninja Turtles' in three or four months; do you wanna come in and do a little work on the script?' That was the beginning of a many-month 'Ninja Turtle' odyssey. -- Evan Daugherty
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us. -- Tom Stoppard
The turtle couldn't help us. -- Stephen King
A turtle does come in it's own bowl -- Mike Dirnt
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle -- Heinrich Heine
The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out. -- Rollo May
We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space! -- Frank Reynolds
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? -- George Carlin
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out. -- Lou Gerstner
I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text. -- Dalai Lama
Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress. -- Anna Olson
You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time. -- Rita Ora
Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out. -- James Bryant Conant
Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?! -- Christopher Paul Curtis
the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie. -- Marge Piercy
So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster". -- Tommy Cooper
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all. -- Harvey Mackay
Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog -- Li Ching-Yuen
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell. -- Eileen Wilks
We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space. -- Danny DeVito
Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. -- Joel Hodgson
Where else," I will say, "does an old turtle crossing the path Make all the difference in the world~? -- Patricia MacLachlan
Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die -- Nikolai Gogol
You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me. -- George Hearst
I love like a turtle takes a shower. Slowly, and with an audience of paying rabbits there to cheer encouragement. -- Jarod Kintz
I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that." -- Jonah Hill
Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move. -- Brigitte Bardot
Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology. -- Jim Breithaupt
Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out. -- Charles Ghigna
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. -- Ruth Westheimer
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve. -- Arthur Miller
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon. -- Janet Fitch
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
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. -- Bess Truman
As true as steel, as plantage to the moon, As sun to day, at turtle to her mate, As iron to adamant, as earth to centre. -- William Shakespeare
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle -- Arthur Golden
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. -- Dane Cook
If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. -- Ogden Nash
Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about the speed and just move ahead! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife -- John Cornyn
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you. -- Ajahn Chah
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
Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle. -- Louis Pullig De Gouy
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
Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.) -- Tamora Pierce
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too. -- Ernest Hemingway
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. -- Kevin J. Anderson
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas." -- Aaron Spelling
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. -- Christopher Moore

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