Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks… — Bobby Jindal 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
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak.… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“We made love like oysters, and then we ate oysters. Then we made love like two people sitting on opposite ends of… — Jarod Kintz 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
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched… — Victoria Finlay 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
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man… — George Will 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
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R:… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce… — Frank Loesser Copy Share Image
Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I… — Jim Himes 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
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What… — Ray Romano 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
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
I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he… — William Shakespeare 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 don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
