Oyster Quotes

100 quotes by 85 authors

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
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie
I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. — Chris Evert
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster — William Shakespeare
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. — George Berkeley
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
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
So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel? — Billy Connolly
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
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
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. — Shirley Chisholm
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
[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
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
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
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee. — Barten Holyday
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. — John Bunyan
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. — M.F.K. Fisher
Except from the Americansâ€”but every pearl has its oyster. — Randall Jarrell
Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster. — Eleanor Clark

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