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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. — Theodore Roosevelt

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

On writers' workshops: It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters. — Stephen King

My mother was an oyster, And I'm the pearl. — Leigh Bardugo

47 - A noisy noise annoys an oyster. — Riley Weber

You can make an oyster surrender its pearl," Clara says. "All you need is persistence and a sharp enough knife. — John Langan

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

Now I lay me down to sleep In mud that's many fathoms deep. If I'm not here when you awake Just hunt me up with an oyster rake — Shelby Foote

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster. — Sallust

You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst. — Ainslie Hogarth

I live absolutely like an oyster. — Gustave Flaubert

My mother was an oyster," he said with a wink. "And I'm the pearl. — Leigh Bardugo

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. — John Banville

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster. — Richard Eyre

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ... — M.F.K. Fisher

Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart? — Padgett Powell

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress — Arthur Miller

Through the mind like an oyster labors on and on, / A grain of sand is all we have — Sylvia Plath

I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer. — Isabella Rossellini

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. — M.F.K. Fisher

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster. — Eleanor Clark

He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there. — Jack Kerouac

To talk of 'prizing her open' as if she were an oyster, to use any but the finest and subtlest and most pliable tools upon her was impious and absurd. — Virginia Woolf

Power tasted like an oyster, like I'd swallowed the sea, all it's memories and calm and rot and brutality. — Jillian Lauren

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. — George Berkeley

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. — Jonathan Swift

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster. — Katie Lowes

You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. — Gore Vidal

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster! — Lewis Carroll

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. — Plato

It was odd to see her stepping out of that gloomy place, like a pearl coming out of an oyster. — Sarah Waters

I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card. — Jason Flemyng

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. — David Hume

It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside. — Alex Flinn

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster. — Shirley Chisholm

An oyster may be crossed in love. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I've always tried to face life like an oyster does--when given grit, give back a pearl. Ted Miller Brogden — Ted Miller Brogden

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl. — Truth Devour

After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper. — Michael Cox