Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
“Why is it when I hear the phrase ‘trompe l’oeil’ I think of oysters” I heard her say once.” — “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I heard oysters are an aphrodisiac, which I can't stand, but I think anything you eat with your hands is cute. I… — Emily Osment Copy Share Image
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back. — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
…oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“The stranded oysters are popping open in the warmth. Tucked in like narcoleptic babies in the pluff mud, they snooze their existence… — Bibiana Krall Copy Share Image
The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world… — Ralph Washington Sockman Copy Share Image
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to… — Peter Webber Copy Share Image
Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears… — John Phillips Copy Share Image
We shot 'Delusion' in the middle of the desert and outside of Las Vegas where they did those underground nuclear bomb testings.… — Jennifer Rubin Copy Share Image
Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice,… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them.… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside. — George Hamilton Copy Share Image
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
