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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
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
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
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
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
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress
— Arthur Miller
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
— Jonathan Swift
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
You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!
— Lewis Carroll
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
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
