Busy Quote by Zora Neale Hurston

To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick…

— Tom Douglas

“Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.”

— G.A. Aiken

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

— Barten Holyday

“I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster spit.”

— Margaret Atwood

I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty good book…

— Mark Kurlansky

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

A cocktail and an oyster is an awfully good thing after a park, especially one close to water.

— Chris Thile

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to…

— Ambrose Bierce

“But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”

— David Hume

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

— Oscar Wilde

From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

— Confucius

“Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.”

— Truth Devour