In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you… — Anonymous 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
Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. — Chris Evert 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
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
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
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
Cats are like oysters, in that no one is neutral about them; everyone is, explicitly or implicitly, friendly or hostile to them.… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. — Hector Hugh Munro 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
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other… — Kate Orff 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
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
“The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter.… — Ruth Reichl 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
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
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
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
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
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There… — Sylvia Earle 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