Shell Quotes
460 quotes by 410 authors
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She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much…
— Sarah Waters
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If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
— George Carlin
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Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in its green and…
— J. Lynn
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We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp…
— Katy Evans
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I realized we’d pulled into a parking garage. We drove around two levels, pulled into a spot, then immediately pulled out again. Along with four…
— Sylvia Day
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...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.
— Steve Martin
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You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to…
— Charlie Higson
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Wave to the nice tourists, Sparkle. I promise it won't cause pestilence and firestorms." Elena bit the inside of her cheek at Aodhan's glare-she'd never…
— Nalini Singh
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Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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It's the old shell game.
— Dan Rather
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Some people can't leave school because they're carrying it around like a snail and his shell. They live there, still. School became an ingrown, hard…
— Sandra Dodd
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So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting…
— Lance Gross
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I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden,…
— Martha Stewart
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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend.…
— Rumi
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If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it…
— Anne Beatts
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I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very…
— Brianna Brown
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We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its…
— James Stephens
Who Wrote These Shell Quotes
410 authors contributed a total of 460 Shell Quotes, led by these top contributors: