I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.
We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.
He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?
We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.
The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead. Statement of the Achilles and the Tortoise paradox in the relation of the discrete to the continuous. ; perhaps the earliest example of the reductio ad absurdum method of proof.
Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive. ' Another nod.
The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.
Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
