Quote by Padgett Powell Download Open image ““Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?”” — Padgett Powell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.” — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“I was conscious of a passing pang for the oyster world, feeling--and I think correctly--that life for these unfortunate bivalves must be one damn… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I always thought it was remarkable that the oyster coats its enemy not only in something beautiful, but a part of itself.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful pearls are not found in oysters, but in enlightened souls.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us" 2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.” — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs.… — padgett powell Copy Share Image
Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul. — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
