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You see me now a veteran of a thousand psychic wars... — Blue Oyster Cult

The world was her oyster, except she didn't care for oysters. Better yet, the world was her raspberry. She liked raspberries. — Kevin J. Anderson

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. — Tom Robbins

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh. — Ian Gardner

Why, then the world 's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. — William Shakespeare

The world is your oyster, they say, so fill it with pearls of semen. — Trebor Healey

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

The ocean hides the oyster.
The oyster hides a pearl.
Bright armor and heavy helmet
Hid China's bravest girl. — Charlie Chin

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back. — Edward Lear

Seasons don't fear the reaper. — Blue Oyster Cult

If the world is your oyster, why are some people so full of grit? — Stacy S. Avary

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

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls. — Chris Gardner

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

So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel? — Billy Connolly

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

the tear of the oyster is a pearl. — G.K. Chesterton

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

He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man. — Emily Bronte

The world is my oyster.
The road is my home.
And I know that I'm better off
Alone. — Ani DiFranco

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

The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster. — Michael Heseltine

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

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.' — Tim Vine

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country. — Tom Douglas

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

Life's funny. Sometimes it's your oyster, and sometimes you're it's bitch-slapped man-whore. — Lois Greiman

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

4. Q: What did the oyster say to the crab when he took his pearl? A: Don't be so shellfish! — Wally Pleasant

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. — Oscar Wilde

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

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. — Ross Perot

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

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside. — George Hamilton

You don't need to chase wealth, just become a real entrepreneur and the world is your oyster. — Amah Lambert

The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman. — James Thurber

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. — Andrew Carnegie

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

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

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like. — J.K. Rowling

On the opposite side, at about seven o'clock, is the little town of Urbanna where the famous Oyster Festival is held every year. — Anonymous

The shock of standing again under the wide pale sky, completely exposed. This must be what the oyster feels when the lemon juice falls. — Edward St. Aubyn

Know thy self, and the world will be thy oyster! — Abhijit Naskar

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

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

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. — Federico Fellini

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

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

Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card. — Agyness Deyn

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster.
Adele, Henry's Mother — Joyce Maynard

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. — Edward Lear

It's important that your shucked oyster is clean and pristine. — Tom Douglas

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

Has every oyster a different taste? — Errol Flynn

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

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

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

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

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. — Steve Scalise

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

Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you, tovarishch, but I am. — Robert A. Heinlein

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. — Carol Ann Duffy

In the United States, there one feels free ... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster. — Randall Jarrell

Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide. — Louisa May Alcott

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

The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster! — Bhartrhari

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

Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith. (Br. Cadfael) — Ellis Peters

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

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time. — Bradley Chicho

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

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

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster. — Paul Smith

The world is your oyster ...
... too bad you're allergic to shellfish. — Paul Neilan

The wise oyster stays in its shell. — Marty Rubin

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

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? — C. Day Lewis

We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all. — James Lovegrove

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

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster. — L.P. Hartley

The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl! — Jolene Church

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

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 world will be our oyster. We'll be wandering stars. We'll be footloose and free. — David Almond

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

What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl. — Rumi

If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s. — Ruth Reichl

Seasons don't fear the Reaper, nor do the Sun, the Wind or the Rain.
We can be like they are.
Come on, baby, don't fear the Reaper. — Blue Oyster Cult

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful. — Mehek Bassi

Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. — William Shakespeare

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

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

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. — Chris Evert

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

Pearls are congealed oyster spit. — Margaret Atwood