Carapace Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
-
Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.
— Cathy Kelly
-
Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do…
— Ray Bradbury
-
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
-
But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
— Arthur Miller
-
Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.
— Joyce Carol Oates
-
Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to…
— David Whyte
-
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
— Marshall McLuhan
-
And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily";…
— Gregory Maguire
-
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they…
— Lauren Groff
-
There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace…
— Michael Ondaatje
-
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment. It…
— Karen Armstrong
-
To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing…
— Virginia Henley
Who Wrote These Carapace Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 12 Carapace Quotes as follows: