Body Quote by Louis Simpson

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

— Eva Zeisel

“Somewhere it is being prepared. Somewhere deep in the heart of Germany the shell is being made. Some German girl is polishing it right…

— Dalton Trumbo

“A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained.”

— Thomas Hardy

“But didn't everyone have a shell? Hard, external armor protecting the soft, vulnerable creature beneath? Perhaps, she thought, people were more like ammonites than…

— Tessa Dare

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

— Anonymous

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to…

— Hervey Allen

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful…

— M. F. K. Fisher

“[The shells] do not have the meaning they once did, but, as Swann said in Remembrance of Things Past, "even when one is no…

— Anne Fadiman

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

— Jan Karon

“Starting and quitting the DOS Shell Changing the display in the DOS Shell Moving between different parts of the shell Copying files in the…

— John Wiley and Sons

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up…

— Walter Cronkite

I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other…

— John Simm