...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
That's why you can't be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned - the fire, the fried… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand… — Fred Wilson 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
Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i… — Don Marquis 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
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
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo 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
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does… — Rumi 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
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures… — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as… — Lillian Russell 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
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to… — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a… — Hector Hugh Munro 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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
I have this whole section in my oyster book where I talk about how New Yorkers have gotten divorced from the sea… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
