Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do… — Louis L'Amour
In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health. — Chris Espinosa
Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is â€œno exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient… — Jacques Ellul
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly… — Robert Hooke
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that… — Leonardo da Vinci
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you… — Neville Cardus
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one… — John Vianney
The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A… — Samuel Rogers
I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered… — Renny Harlin
If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi. — Fred Beck
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health;… — Arne Garborg
Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns. — John Bell Hood
Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I… — Jack Handey
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

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