Quote by Anne Fadiman

“But didn't everyone have a shell? Hard, external armor protecting the soft, vulnerable creature beneath? Perhaps, she thought, people were more like ammonites than…

— Tessa Dare

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

— Ken Thompson

“But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“These shells are just like the people of the world, Okachan,' Manjiro said, speaking not just to his mother, but to everyone. 'They come…

— Margi Preus

“I suspect if we were as familiar with our bones as with our skin, we'd never bury dead but shrine them in their rooms,…

— William H. Gass

“Somewhere it is being prepared. Somewhere deep in the heart of Germany the shell is being made. Some German girl is polishing it right…

— Dalton Trumbo

“A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.”

— St. Francis de Sales

“But it were folly to lay any stress on stories of this kind, which are sure to spring up around such an event as…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Which came first, the mollusc or the shell?”

— Helen Scales

“A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from…

— Gaston Bachelard

“It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.”

— Alex Flinn

“A turtle without a shell is a very strange thing. Even with shells, turtles are very strange things, with their miniature elephant's feet, parrot's…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol