If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have… — David Kenyon Webster Copy Share Image
The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly.… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these… — Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Copy Share Image
I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out. — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Thousands of stars in the night sky, And shells on the shore together, Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Especially in… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical? — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the… — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. — James Longstreet Copy Share Image
