Best 97 quotes in «shells quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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'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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Ordinary Americans can't pollute for free. You can't dump your trash on the sidewalk or throw all your refuse into your neighbor's yard. I don't understand why corporate polluters should be allowed to dump megatons of carbon, the most dangerous pollution in the history of the world, into our thin shell of an atmosphere, and not pay a penny to do it.

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.

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

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

...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.

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.

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

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

Strength is an empty shell.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

Thank you hard taco shells for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.