Shells Quotes

It's the old shell game.

— Dan Rather

the shell must break before the bird can fly.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

— Plautus

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

— Audrey Tautou

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

— Erasmus Darwin

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

— Kathy Burke

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

— Amy Lowell

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Buying scallops in their shells is the best way to ensure their freshness.

— Monica Galetti

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

— Sylvia Plath

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

— Bobby Jindal

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

— Larry Wall

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold...

— Anonymous

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

— Eva Zeisel

“Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case...

— Tupac Shakur

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be…

— Anonymous

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break…

— Michelangelo

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on…

— Goran Ivanisevic

An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. … Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from…

— Haruki Murakami

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but…

— Samuel Rogers

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

— Mercedes Lackey

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting…

— Fred Durst

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst;…

— Jodi Picoult

The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene:…

— E. B. White

Beneath the ocean surface, bad things are happening. Increasing CO2 makes ocean water more acid, and that threatens to dissolve the shells…

— Mark Powell

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep…

— Edward Forbes

The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And…

— Erasmus Darwin

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living…

— Anonymous

I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind; a Flora of the whole globe…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia…

— Roger Caillois

In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed…

— Francesca Lia Block

“And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and…

— Joy Williams

It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there…

— Agostino Scilla

Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority…

— Margo Kaufman

From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans…

— Gretel Ehrlich