Shells Quotes

Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

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

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.

What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.