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What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. — Edward Lear
Has every oyster a different taste? — Errol Flynn
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill… — Anatole France
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
Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few… — Sylvia Earle
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
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to… — Bobby Jindal
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. — Roger Moore
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 enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all… — Pat Conroy
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
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving… — Ernest Hemingway
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
O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was… — Lewis Carroll
i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums… — Don Marquis
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
Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.… — Herman Melville
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

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