Shell Quotes

460 quotes by 410 authors

Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning… — Robert Hunter
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate… — Robert Greene
People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell. — Jackson Pollock
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on… — Gretel Ehrlich
I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I… — Goran Ivanisevic
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. — John Bunyan
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital… — Gaston Bachelard
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. — Learned Hand
Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful… — Gene Simmons
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at… — Eckhart Tolle
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon
The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of… — James Howe
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may… — Khalil Gibran
Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it. — Peter Thiel
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming… — Loren Acton
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have… — Steven Biko
A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation. — Eileen Gray
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything… — Jack L. Chalker

Who Wrote These Shell Quotes

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