It's the old shell game.

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has…

— Herman Leonard

What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

— Robert Breault

We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen…

— Anonymous

“But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“What you see is my old shell; inside it’s all changed. You can’t share my life.”

— R.K. Narayan

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

— Gregory David Roberts

I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am…

— Johnny Manziel

He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

— Plautus

the shell must break before the bird can fly.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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…

— Anne Beatts

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

— Plautus

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

— Taisen Deshimaru

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

— Audrey Tautou

We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to…

— Bill Russell