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If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? — George Carlin

A Man Needs A Woman Like A Turtle Needs A Shell on His Back" SINGLE AGAIN by Rod Cornelius — Rod Cornelius

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. — Rick Bragg

A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived — Rumi

A young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs. — Steve Martin

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It never ended. Even though she'd thought she'd covered her heart with a permanent porcelain shell, he still found a way to chip at it. — Jojo Moyes

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings. — J.K. Rowling

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

How to sustain the miracle
Of being, that like a muted bell,
Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
Quivers, intense and still? — Babette Deutsch

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

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie. — Amy Lowell

Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again. — Daphne Du Maurier

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. — John F. Kerry

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

You can only live 'Life' when you stepped out from your comfort zone. Don't restrict yourself within a shell when you can actually be limitless. — Jeekeshen Chinnappen

You are a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you are empty. — Nicole Krauss

A snail hides in his shell. — George R R Martin

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

The Art of Woo provides tools for a critically important — G.Richard Shell

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they? — Sara Pennypacker

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive. — Sarah Dessen

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

Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well. — Stevie Wonder

I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like 'Evangelion' and 'Ghost in the Shell.' — Rinko Kikuchi

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

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell. — John F. Kennedy

What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones? — Naomi Shihab Nye

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

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice. — Mamoru Oshii

I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell — Laura Wiess

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. — Haruki Murakami

If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times. — Herman Leonard

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

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. — Larry Wall

Spending time and energy on pleasing others is like a hole in a balloon; soon all the air is gone and all that's left is a shell. HS/el — Evinda Lepins

Christ, he was empty, just a shell of himself. He had nothing to give, not even his seed. — Charlotte Featherstone

He knew too well the sting of loneliness and how over time it stole you away, piece by piece, until a mere shell remained. — Katherine McIntyre

I became the burst shell of a mustard seed to dwell for an eye-blink amid a starburst galaxy of broken dreams. — David B. Lentz

And therefore think him as a serpents egg, which, hatched, would as its kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell — William Shakespeare

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty. — Rebecca Wells

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic. — Frances Beinecke

Her hair burst from her head like a fireworks shell erupting, framing her face in spray of red-blond energy. — Dennis Vickers

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it. — Steven Wright

Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left. — Patrick Kavanagh

A person is not some private entity traveling unaffected through time and space as if sealed off from the rest of the world by some thick shell. — Thich Nhat Hanh

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you. — Ernest Rutherford

Then, people butchered animals all the time for meat or hide or shell or whatever. This is why my friend Piper became a vegetarian.) — Rick Riordan

A heart of fire in a shell of ice. — Francine Du Plessix Gray

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

Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. — Charlotte Eriksson

If one could see an infinite distance, they would observe the back of their head. That is Einstein's theory in a nut-shell. — R. Alan Woods

I didn't expect that for every shell on the coast there's a tree in the midlands. — Sara Baume

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan

Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell. — Jonathan Dunne

Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said ... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed me in this man's shell. — Tamora Pierce

Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species. — Laura Wade

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out. — Thrity Umrigar

I portray a hard-ace shell on the outside; strong, unapproachable and a rebel. But on the inside, I'm a gooey, emotional, scaredy cat mess. — Shelly Crane

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. — George Santayana

And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of spent flesh... but they say he no longer dreams. — C.M. Hayden

A town without a bookstore is an empty shell of a place. — Ellery Adams

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell. — John Gurdon

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. — Jessica Stroup

Ah, but would we not all be the fools to attack an armored turtle through its shell? — R.A. Salvatore

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

It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world. — Milan Kundera

You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell. — Jennifer Niven

What's happened to her? The person that she is seems like a shell designed to cover up the person that Harold once knew her to be. — Dexter Palmer

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

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious. — Joan Cusack

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world. — Stephanie Hemphill

A friend had told him that a man carried his pain like a tortoise carried his shell. — Anonymous

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation. — Eileen Gray

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. — Sappho

Dad: Did you like the Kinder Egg I gave you yesterday? Son: The chocolate was very good, but the shell was a bit hard. *** — Various

Sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty. — Nicole Krauss

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

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling. — Moby

I'm a Raider. Die hard Raider. — Art Shell

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. — Robert Greene

A poem is a skeletal shape. When I say it to you, I am dropping the empty shell of a crab into your warm, green ocean... — Jeffrey L. Hollman

Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside. — Frances Sargent Osgood

He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person. — Amy Lichtenhan

I've never met a shell before. What a marvelous gift. — Marissa Meyer

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

That sound, the sound of a shell inserted into the receiver of the shotgun changed everything. — Perry Perrett

I was looking at a ghost, a shell, a stranger. — Michelle Hodkin

Life is nothing but a sea shell in the ocean of love. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

A shell screams over the house. He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours. — Anthony Doerr

There comes a time when you have to shut it off, let it go, and say it's not going to happen. — Art Shell

It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent. — James Marsters

Like a garish conch shell, my cynicism protected me from disappointment, or so I believed, so I expected the worst and smirked when I found it. — Rachel Held Evans

The Roundhouse was a complete shell. It was absolutely empty, lying derelict for years. — Richard Stanley

These fundamental imbalances led them into concentric circles of ever decreasing size: a nautilus shell of their discontent. — John L. Parker Jr.