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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

Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere. — George R R Martin

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

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they? — Michael Fassbender

My taste includes both snails and oysters. — Marcus Licinius Crassus

Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk? — Doug Stanhope

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

I think oysters are overrated, and I don't love the texture. — Kevin Dillon

Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? — Arthur Conan Doyle

Dan, rabbits who've been fed oysters laced with Viagra don't like sex as much as you do. — Matt Dunn

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

Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested. — Tom Douglas

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

It's easy to get the feeling that you know the language just because when you order a beer they don't bring you oysters. (Paul Child) — Julia Child

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself. — Katie Aselton

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine ... — Jimmy Buffett

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

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

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. — Kenneth Tynan

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines ... — Eleanor Clark

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes. — Christie Brinkley

Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them. — Thor Heyerdahl

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

Did you know that Lincoln liked popcorn, and oysters, and a good strong cup of coffee? — Joshua Wolf Shenk

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

I live absolutely like an oyster. — Gustave Flaubert

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight. — Juvenal

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas. — Hugh Bonneville

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together. — Charles Dickens

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon. — Garry Shandling

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters. — Bertrand Russell

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

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. — Nicolas Chamfort

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died. — Roy Blount Jr.

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

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

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

A lover's a liar,
To himself he lies,
The truthful are loveless,
Like oysters their eyes! — Kurt Vonnegut

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. — Roger Moore

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

So come on out, my dear old sweet Sister, - & we'll open our oysters together. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Has every oyster a different taste? — Errol Flynn

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms. — Barbara Walters

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

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl. — Remy De Gourmont

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

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

So many pearls to be had, if you were in the mood to open oysters. — Maggie Stiefvater

Oysters followed — Lewis Carroll

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. — Woody Allen

I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night. — Nenia Campbell

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous. — Paul Merton

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

In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles. — William Carlos Williams

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

Our full stomachs make us more uncomfortable and breathless than we were on the morning's climb. I begin to regret those last dozen oysters. — Suzanne Collins

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know. — John Hodgman

Feeding her raw oysters at Charleston, or sharing the gingerbread with lemon chiffon sauce at Bicycle. — Laura Lippman

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

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

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls. — Sheila Ballantyne

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

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

Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. "I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne. — Gyles Brandreth

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident. — Andrew Hinkinson

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open. — Willa Gibbs

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable. — Jim Himes

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Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster. — 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

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

If you roll a pearl around your mouth it slowly reveals the dreams of oysters, memories of the sea, the taste of orgasm. — Chloe Thurlow

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

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried. — Dolly Parton

brown-capped porcini, yellow chanterelles, and oysters, every hillside ablaze with multicolored mushrooms, tasty and not nourishing in the slightest. — Ioanna Karystiani

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