You can live your whole life in a shell. Or, you can hatch.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Robert Breault

What we need is progress with an escape hatch.

— John Updike

Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportunity to come forth? Like the female cycle that…

— Stella Payton

There's something called the Hatch Act that I have to be very mindful of.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.

— Mark Twain

“The truth is like a septic tank and the smell will eventually get out no matter how hard we tighten down the hatch.”

— George Sorbane

I'll be helping them getting suited up, getting them in the airlock, getting the airlock prepared, and getting them out the hatch, and then…

— Mark Kelly

Sometimes I wonder if I'm running against Mitt Romney or Sen. Hatch.

— Scott Howell

“Some people are like egg. The more you apply heat to them, the harder they become. To hatch them, just use a gentle heat,…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

— Jakob Dylan

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

— C. S. Lewis

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.

— Robert Graves

“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through…

— Kate Atkinson