So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel? — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“They say pressure can turn even a grain of sand into a pearl under the right circumstances.” — Amanda Foody Copy Share Image
“The ocean hides the oyster. The oyster hides a pearl. Bright armor and heavy helmet Hid China's bravest girl.” — Charlie Chin Copy Share Image
“Oyster, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails!” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“On writers' workshops: "It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other… — Kate Orff Copy Share Image
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion…Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none -… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“To be a pearl maker, your oyster needs a good strong shell to protect you from a hundred million irritants in your… — Annie Kagan Copy Share Image
I went up to the camp and Paul had me eat my first oyster I had never had an oyster in my… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
You need to feel comfortable. When you're comfortable, you feel confident. And when you're confident, the world is your oyster. Most important,… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“We are like those oysters in many ways...Irritants, or foreign objects, infiltrate our lives in the form of bad choices, jealousy, fear,… — Stacy Hawkins Adams Copy Share Image
“She might have managed to swerve through the crowds to rescue Henry, but that tray of oysters came by and she was… — Ellen Herrick Copy Share Image
“Up until the nineteenth century, the oyster was thought to be a simple primitive creature. We like to think this of the… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
“Do you know how a pearl comes to be?" "Oysters make them, from a bit of sand." "Aiyah. From a bit of… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
“An oyster has hardly any more reasoning power than a scientist has; and so it it is reasonably certain that this one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Once (says an Author; where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the… — Pope Alexander VI Copy Share Image
“THE PEARL STARTS ITS LIFE AS A SPLINTER—something unwanted like a piece of shell or shard of dirt that accidentally lodges itself… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image