Shells Quotes

“Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.”

— Gaston Bachelard

Strength is an empty shell.

— Jack London

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

— Amy Lowell

I'm very much a person who walks on egg shells.

— Kathy Burke

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

— Audrey Tautou

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

— Erasmus Darwin

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

— Plautus

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

— Matsuo Basho

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

— Thomas Sowell

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

— Brian Perkins

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

— Grace Meng

If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

— J. M. Coetzee

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

— Joe Manchin

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

— Sarah Dessen

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She…

— Marita Bonner

I marvel at the highest waves, the graceful curve of shells, the Ocean swells with power and prolificacy.

— Anonymous

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for…

— Sarah McLachlan

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

— Nouman Ali Khan

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

— Walter Savage Landor

First of all, people were not expecting [Donald Trump] to win. I still think they're in shell-shock four months later. Get over…

— Kellyanne Conway

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

— Anais Nin

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed…

— Anonymous

Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely…

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of…

— Ricky Williams

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea…

— Anonymous

If love makes you sad, you acquire a little depth, a little compassion. If it makes you happy, you learn how to…

— Sharon Shinn

It was during this [as a kid] time that I came out of my shell vocally and performance wise, I learned how…

— Tessanne Chin

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or…

— David Wong

Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past,…

— Brad Alan Lewis

For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine,…

— Arne Garborg

You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there…

— William Mackergo Taylor

The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features…

— Virginia Woolf

Turtles remind us that the way to heaven is through the earth. In Mother Earth is all that we need. She will…

— Ted Andrews

I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he…

— Mia Wasikowska

Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed…

— Daniel Handler

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed…

— Jack Spicer