Best 97 quotes in «shells quotes» category

Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

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

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Mexican food is my absolute, #1 favorite food. But all the cutting and dicing is very time-consuming. I do like to cook a few times a week, but it's not always that intricate with the shells and the cheese, etcetera.

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.