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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
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
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
— Hildegard Of Bingen
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
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
— Cyril Connolly
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
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
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
— Karl Kraus
My old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time lie bare and naked to the day, just as the shells and the stones do on the sands
— Daphne Du Maurier
It's been my experience that those with the toughest shells have the softest hearts
— Richard Paul Evans
Today, however, she didn't go looking for urchins or broken shells. She simply walked to the end of the earth and stood a while.
— John Burnside
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
It amazes me, how the pursuit of wisdom tends to turn people into shells of their former selves.
— J.M. Darhower
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
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Only the balance of the scale, bedded love in the shells, teaches us to find the inner self.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
— Gaston Bachelard
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keepsadjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan. — Marianne Moore
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
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
What you discover about life's shell game is that it's hardest to follow the pea when you're the pea.
— Robert Breault
I had drawn away into the salt,myself, a shell
emptied of life. — Hilda Doolittle
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
— Frances Harper
I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
— Dan Shechtman
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
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
Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!
— C. JoyBell C.
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
— Elliot Johnson
The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.
— Sylvia Plath
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
— Ken Thompson
It's the old shell game.
— Dan Rather
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
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
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
The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.
— Giovanni Battista Brocchi
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
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.
— Learned Hand
Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.
— Eric Samuel Timm
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
— Anais Nin
up shells, and waded at the water's edge,
— Danielle Steel
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
— James Longstreet
