Shells Quotes

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.

If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

It's the old shell game.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

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

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

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

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

Strength is an empty shell.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.