Shells Quotes · Page 3

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

— Julia Kent

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells

— Bettie Page

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

— Bryan Brown

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

— Maurice Ravel

I had dreams of starting a company like Burmah Shell.

— Dhirubhai Ambani

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

— Plato

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

— Corey Hart

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

— Elizabeth Hand

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate…

— William Butler Yeats

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes…

— Maya Angelou

It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you…

— Tove Jansson

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask…

— Aristophanes

I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of…

— Rick Riordan

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a…

— Sara Pennypacker

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

— Ramakrishna

I was a big light heavyweight but I feel perfect at heavyweight. When I look back at some of my old fights,…

— Antonio Tarver

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can…

— John Simm

O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling…

— Mark Twain

Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like…

— Jack Handey

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a…

— Huston Smith

Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of…

— Anais Nin

But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked…

— Walter Savage Landor

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature,…

— Edmond Rostand

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a…

— Anonymous

The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side…

— Gregory Maguire

maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that…

— e. e. cummings

After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is…

— Joshua L. Liebman

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

I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science…

— Robert Aris Willmott

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

— Hilda Doolittle

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

— Anonymous

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

— Lionel Shriver

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

— Sappho

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

— Giovanni Battista Brocchi

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

— Bahya ibn Paquda