Shell Quotes

460 quotes by 410 authors

To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush… — Pat Conroy
If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been… — Herman Leonard
A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks… — Sharon Begley
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call… — Oscar Wilde
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune… — Jules Renard
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper… — James Rainwater
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain… — Georges Cuvier
Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through… — Mark Tobey
Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there. — Gregory David Roberts
Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when… — Paul Buchheit
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. — Stephen King
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole… — Eknath Easwaran
Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand. — Jeroen van der Veer
Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is… — Jim Sinclair
There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach… — Daisaku Ikeda
Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is… — Stefan Kieszling
Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly… — Brad Alan Lewis
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me… — Rumi
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. — Andy Rooney

Who Wrote These Shell Quotes

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