Oyster Quotes
100 quotes by 85 authors
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For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create…
— John Banville
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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
— Andrew Carnegie
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I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.
— Chris Evert
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I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster
— William Shakespeare
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
— George Berkeley
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From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists…
— Victor Hugo
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If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and…
— Alexandra Guarnaschelli
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
— Billy Connolly
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Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the…
— J M Coetzee
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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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Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
— Shirley Chisholm
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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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[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner…
— Kate Orff
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The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the…
— Ian Gardner
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People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is…
— Alistair Cooke
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A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
— Barten Holyday
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If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
— John Bunyan
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An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
— Randall Jarrell
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Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.
— Eleanor Clark
Who Wrote These Oyster Quotes
85 authors contributed a total of 100 Oyster Quotes, led by these top contributors: