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

No matter how hard your shell is on the out side you will aways find some one who loves you — Kelly Armstrong

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

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense ... — Elizabeth Warren

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

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

I told him I was sorry. He sighed and held me closer, his lips against the shell of my ear, "You will be, Kitten". — C.J. Roberts

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

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something. — Jonathan Krohn

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. — Zora Neale Hurston

What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things? — Maxine Kumin

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

Within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties. — M.M. Kaye

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

We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on. — T. S. Eliot

that town, they had gone under and now just the rotting empty shell remained. Having left all that was his home — Tim Heath

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

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

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

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

anger because pain would drown me without the protective shell. — Ann Aguirre

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet. — Amy Dickinson

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

The wise oyster stays in its shell. — Marty Rubin

Nine are killed instantly. One of them still clutching the hand of bridge he was playing when the shell struck. — Anthony Doerr

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

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

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

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 half way to Heaven and half way to Hell with each breath I take in this mortal shell. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

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

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

Gray vines coiled leftward in this northern hemisphere, what winds them shapes the dogwhelk's shell. Weeds sprouted from cinder and brick. — Cormac McCarthy

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

Always remember the answers come not from the rock, the teacup, the shell, or the cards. The answers come from you. — Gwendolyn Womack

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game. — W.C. Fields

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

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

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

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

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

We shell out hundreds of dollars for tracking bands, something convicts are forced to wear. — Anonymous

She'd never been kissed like that before - like the shell of her soul had evaporated. — Kelly Creagh

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

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. — Ken Thompson

corner, an empty shell that is merely — Krishna Udayasankar

Wisdom's Pearl doth often dwell
Closed in Fancy's rainbow shell — John Sterling

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

The turtle whose head
Is within his shell
Thinks the world outside
Is going well. — Carol Kendall

No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell. — Cassandra Giovanni

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

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

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly. — Jennifer Worth

No! Such as they will not destroy marriage - they will save it! They restore the vital substance while we preserve the empty shell. — Jesse Lynch Williams

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. — Meister Eckhart

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

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. — Jan Karon

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

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

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

layers I've built over the past six months, past the fake Lena with her shell and her ID cards and — Lauren Oliver

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

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals. — Julia Kent

Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell. — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

The pain has receded but what's left is the shell of pain, an empty space where there should be pain but instead there is the expectation of pain. — Audrey Niffenegger

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

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. — Andy Rooney

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

Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ. — Leeteuk

The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab. — Robin Wright

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

I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge. — Kurt Busch

Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. — Kahlil Gibran

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. — Gustave Flaubert

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

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings. — Henry Vaughan

It's the old shell game. — Dan Rather

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