Oyster Quotes

100 Oyster quotes by 83 unique authors

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 â€™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
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the… — Unknown Author
There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have… — Neil Gaiman
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he… — Gore Vidal
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls. — Chris Gardner
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing… — Christopher Marlowe

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