Oyster Quotes

100 Oyster quotes by 83 unique authors

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great,… — Tim Vine
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional… — Carol Ann Duffy
I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. — Richard Eyre
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. — David Hume
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife. — Zora Neale Hurston
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. — Jonathan Swift
It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies… — Leonard Cohen
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. — Oscar Wilde
The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish. — Paul Neilan
Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. — Tom Robbins
I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at… — Zora Neale Hurston
The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I… — Janet Fitch
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. — William Shakespeare
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's… — Joyce Maynard
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite… — Hector Hugh Munro
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of… — Michael Chabon
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress — Arthur Miller
The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters… — Tom Robbins
We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to… — Neil Gaiman
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:… — John Green

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