Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call… — Oscar Wilde
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal… — Roger Caillois
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune… — Jules Renard
The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper… — James Rainwater
Young women say I helped them come out of their shells — Bettie Page
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain… — Georges Cuvier
Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through… — Mark Tobey
Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there. — Gregory David Roberts
I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part… — Simon Van Booy
Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when… — Paul Buchheit
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your… — Zeena Schreck
It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. — Stephen King
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole… — Eknath Easwaran
Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand. — Jeroen van der Veer
Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is… — Jim Sinclair
There is no true joy in a life lived closed up in the little shell of the self. When you take one step to reach… — Daisaku Ikeda
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of… — Stefan Kieszling
Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is… — Stefan Kieszling
Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly… — Brad Alan Lewis

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