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
A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my… — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a… — Jim Himes 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
I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how… — James Lovegrove 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
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the… — Alexander Chee Copy Share Image
In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster. — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust… — John Green 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
For me, if there's anything that would represent me and my style of cooking, it would be a seafood platter. Maybe a… — Chuck Hughes Copy Share Image