Appearance Quote by Frances Sargent Osgood

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard…

— Ian Gardner

“To be a pearl maker, your oyster needs a good strong shell to protect you from a hundred million irritants in your environment. Your…

— Annie Kagan

The world may be your oyster, but it doesn't mean you'll get its pearl.

— Anonymous

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

— Chris Gardner

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

— John Bunyan

“THE PEARL STARTS ITS LIFE AS A SPLINTER—something unwanted like a piece of shell or shard of dirt that accidentally lodges itself in an…

— Tarryn Fisher

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle…

— Christopher Morley

“The most beautiful pearls are not found in oysters, but in enlightened souls.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

— Randall Jarrell

“Pearls are congealed oyster spit.”

— Margaret Atwood

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

— Anonymous

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever…

— Robin McKinley