Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that. — Danica McKellar
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. — Marshall McLuhan
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and… — Herman Melville
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the… — Michelangelo
We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and… — Michael Moore
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on… — Isaac Newton
A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in… — Meghan O'Rourke
I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally. — Zoe Saldana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — George Santayana
I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't… — Garry Shandling
It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east… — William Shatner
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and… — William Tecumseh Sherman
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only… — Wole Soyinka
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. — Tom Stoppard
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in… — James Surowiecki
I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are.… — Ricky Williams
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of… — Khalil Gibran

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