Best 97 quotes in «shells quotes» category

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.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

...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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

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.