Crab Quotes
67 quotes by 62 authors
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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside…
— Tori Amos
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Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make…
— Willa Cather
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort…
— Victor Hugo
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I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal…
— Anjelica Huston
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One night I was in bed-and remember that I'm on the second floor of a hotel-when I spotted this crab coming toward me across the…
— Jennifer Esposito
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This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.
— Norman Fell
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Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."…
— Khalil Gibran
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As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I…
— Thom Yorke
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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw…
— Dale Carnegie
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
— Aristophanes
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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.
— Charles Olson
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What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me…
— Gregory Bateson
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Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.
— Richard Russo
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The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
— Steven Pressfield
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I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.
— Gabe Newell
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Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.
— Howard Wilkinson
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
— Aristophanes
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Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the…
— Jack Spicer
Who Wrote These Crab Quotes
62 authors contributed a total of 67 Crab Quotes, led by these top contributors: