All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells... — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time. — Frank Ocean Copy Share Image
Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became… — Sandra Dodd Copy Share Image
It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more… — Gene 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
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She… — Marita Bonner 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
I realized we’d pulled into a parking garage. We drove around two levels, pulled into a spot, then immediately pulled out again.… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My… — Hannah Flagg Gould Copy Share Image
Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
