Shell Quotes
460 quotes by 410 authors
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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with…
— H.G. Wells
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Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head,…
— Chris Bohjalian
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I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.
— Edie Brickell
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All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When…
— Eddie Murphy
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The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of…
— Hermann Hesse
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'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars…
— Zhuangzi
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner…
— Marcel Proust
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Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.
— Nouman Ali Khan
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The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the…
— Meister Eckhart
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Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the…
— Judith Wright
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
— Epictetus
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Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening…
— Sara Wiseman
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I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the…
— Amy Harmon
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Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.
— Bryan Brown
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I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach…
— Ron Jaworski
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It is only through letting our heart break that we discover something unexpected: the heart cannot actually break, it can only break open. When we…
— John Welwood
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Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the…
— Jack Spicer
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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense...
— Elizabeth Warren
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Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of physics…
— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
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But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
— Virginia Woolf
Who Wrote These Shell Quotes
410 authors contributed a total of 460 Shell Quotes, led by these top contributors: