out from the shell

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

“We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.”

— T.S. Eliot

the shell must break before the bird can fly.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

“You can live for a long time inside the shell you were born in. But one day it'll become too small." "Then what?" I…

— Christina Baker Kline

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

— Plautus

“When we crave the touch and the feel of an unfeigned world, we must not waver and put our quest on the back burner,…

— Erik Pevernagie

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on…

— Richard Dawkins

Marriage is give and take. Youd better give it to him or shell take it anyway.

— Azgraybebly Joslan

“A heart of fire in a shell of ice.”

— Francine du Plessix Gray

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

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell…

— Geoff Johns

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

— Cam'ron