Franz Kafka
Writer
"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
Slime quotes
Slime
15 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Francis Bacon
Philosopher, Statesman
"I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime."
Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull."
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