Shell Quotes

460 quotes by 410 authors

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the… — Virginia Woolf
One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land… — Aldo Leopold
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you. — Ernest Rutherford
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat… — Simone de Beauvoir
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade… — Albert Camus
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly. — Drew Barrymore
maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly… — E E Cummings
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your… — Dorothy Allison
He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside… — Stephen Dobyns
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. — Gustave Flaubert
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
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that… — Jodi Picoult
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good.… — Haruki Murakami
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your… — Cassandra Clare
The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish… — Charles Baudelaire
But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and… — Nick Hornby
If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell… — Julia Gregson
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began. — Steven Morrissey

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410 authors contributed a total of 460 Shell Quotes, led by these top contributors: