Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books… — Jeffrey Eugenides
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight… — Maya Angelou
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving… — Ernest Hemingway
Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and… — Dylan Thomas
Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier… — Dorothy L. Sayers
A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real… — Steven Morrissey
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too. — Matsuo Basho
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. — Rick Bragg
Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. — Jimmy Buffett
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the… — Mitch Albom
Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold... — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of… — Haruki Murakami
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that… — Sylvester Stallone
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose… — Stephen King
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the… — Lynda Barry
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a… — William Butler Yeats
His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the… — Virginia Woolf

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