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
To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us" 2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend… — Beth Hoffman 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
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And… — Erasmus Darwin 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
Shellfish is better to buy live. In the U.S., because we eat oysters and clams raw, it is very important that they… — Nobu Matsuhisa Copy Share Image
“Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great… — Elizabeth Montagu Copy Share Image
Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“Asher taps his fingers on his lips and I catch Amy licking her own as she eyes his mouth. "What exactly are… — Jessica Sorensen Copy Share Image
The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
And it is hysterically funny to see someone eating oysters for the first time. — Kathy Hilton Copy Share Image
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“So come on out, my dear old sweet Sister, - & we'll open our oysters together.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation. — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.” — William Carlos; Edith Heal Williams Copy Share Image
Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested. — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas. — Hugh Bonneville Copy Share Image
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with… — Stephen King 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 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
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an… — Agatha Christie 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
It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
