Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by… — J. G. Ballard
Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them… — Hugo Black
Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them… — Jeff Bridges
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a… — Vince Cable
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who… — Vince Cable
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie
For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school,… — Jim Carrey
Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call… — Swami Satchidananda
Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,… — Francis Bacon
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell.… — Rumi
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist. — Edgar Bergen
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be… — Hervey Allen
O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the… — Mark Twain
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of… — John B. S. Haldane
The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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