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Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
— Cormac McCarthy
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
— William Beveridge
Their methods were especially crude and most of these former friends were now born again model citizens; lobotomized; or burnt out shells.
— H.M. Forester
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.
— Jerzy Kosinski
A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
— Amy Lowell
Had I told the sea what I felt for you, it would have left its shores, its shells, its fish, and followed me.- Nizar Qabbani — Nizar Qabbani
Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.
— Richard Paul Evans
Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
— Richard Paul Evans
Like hermit crabs, addictions are resourceful impersonators hidden in vacated snail shells, protecting soft bodies in borrowed homes. Not
— Caryl Ann Casbon
He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells ...
— William S. Burroughs
What we wear is the shell of who we are.
— Audrey Tautou
How impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, neat as walnut shells.
— Karen Thompson Walker
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
— Karl Kraus
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
— Ernest Rutherford
One man's fight is another man's freedom.
— Carla H. Krueger
up shells, and waded at the water's edge,
— Danielle Steel
Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.
— Eric Samuel Timm
I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.
— Lauren Oliver
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
— Anais Nin
It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts
— Richard Paul Evans
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
— Janine Benyus
In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.
— Chris Espinosa
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
— Aristophanes
One cannot collect all the beautful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keepsadjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan. — Marianne Moore
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
— Gaston Bachelard
A man who can own pearls does not bother about shells, and those who aspire to virtue do not trouble themselves over honors.
— Francis De Sales
All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
— Howard Jacobson
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
— James Longstreet
Rang in my ears like Easter morning churchbells in Rome, rumble from an unmuffled Harley, fireworks shells exploding over a Fourth-of-July parade.
— Dennis Vickers
Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.
— Mary Shelley
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
— Walter Savage Landor
Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.
— Tennessee Ernie Ford
Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?A: Peanut shells on the floor. — Bucky Sinister
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
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
— Andy Rooney
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.
— Sylvia Plath
I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
— Dan Shechtman
It's the old shell game.
— Dan Rather
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
I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit.
— Demi Lovato
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells ... Easy to crush.
— Melissa Marr
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
— Elliot Johnson
Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells ...
— Charles Dickens
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.
— Julia Kent
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.
— Joshua Greenberg
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
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
— Sam Vaknin
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
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.
— Taisen Deshimaru
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.
— Learned Hand
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Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.
— Edward Weston
Within the oyster's shell uncouthThe purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside. — Frances Sargent Osgood
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
— Larry Wall
The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.
— Giovanni Battista Brocchi
Theta loved pretty things more than air or food. She had a deep fondness for full red roses, pink shells, and starry sunsets.
— Lena Goldfinch
People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.
— Jackson Pollock
E canchis amnia.Everything from shells. — Erasmus Darwin
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
— Ken Thompson
I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.
— Stephen Colbert
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
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
— Henry Grunwald
Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.
— Jimmy Buffett
Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
