Language Quote by William Carlos; Edith Heal Williams

“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”

— Philip Pullman

“Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?”

— Padgett Powell

“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

“Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters?”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“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

“I always thought it was remarkable that the oyster coats its enemy not only in something beautiful, but a part of itself.”

— Tarryn Fisher

“An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful before all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Objects are relatively stupid. They do a few things well, as do lobsters.”

— Leland Wilkinson

“It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.”

— Felix Alba-Juez

“It is thus that inanimate objects seem to soak up the essence of living things, and later cause pain or pleasure when we merely…

— Margaret George

“Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.”

— Kij Johnson

“It's incredible to me to think that all these objects can hold so much meaning, but at the end of the day they're objects…

— Julie Murphy