Shell Quotations

Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

Many of our traditional partners are positioning themselves as strong regional players... Shell is a global player. And as the global gas markets develop... we will be creating a global strategic partnership.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.

We may not know what each day has in store for us. We could be gone tomorrow. Any minute could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. Today. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out hate then it does to allow love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it's what we were born to do.

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research.

My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

My first child, I think I was completely shell shocked. I was ecstatic but in shock that I was now responsible completely for another life and it was my co-creation and how did I manage that?! I was in awe that I had actually done what millions of other women had done, given birth and now an added responsibility of 'mommy' in my life ahead!

Runners and yogis are alike in lots of ways, and not just because some of us need yoga to unkink what running jams. Runners and yogis are also alike because of this tortoise shell idea, this 'home' we can access inside ourselves.

Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.

My hunch is BP and Shell won't fall, but they won't rise much. That makes it difficult for London to outperform.

Some assets were impacted for six to nine months from Ivan last year because things like underwater landslides affected pipelines once the storm had passed. Shell is taking the brunt of the storm this time.

Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.

My first photo shoot, I was so nervous. I was just shy. I feel like I've gotten better and I'm not as in my shell as I used to be.

I don't know anybody that runs 4.18, besides him. People tend to gravitate towards those that can shell out information. That would be the wise youngster and the wise old guy, so to speak. I had him around a lot. I consider that guy my little brother. I took him under my wing.

If we knew what to look for, we could literally read the crab's shell to determine when it should molt and when we should get it to market,

Sir Philip continues to believe that the FSA's findings in the final notice against Shell are flawed,

Sir Philip is disappointed by the tribunal's decision and we are giving careful consideration to the tribunal's reasoning. Sir Philip continues to believe that the FSA's factual findings in the final notice against Shell are flawed. Sir Philip acted properly and in good faith at all times.

maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,andmillie befriended a stranded starwho's rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced sideways while blowing bubbles:andmay came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)it's always ourselves we find in the sea.

Fresh, organic, cage-free eggs that slip right out of the shell are a versatile gift of the food world and can be transformed into a variety of tasty meals.

Basically, we're trying to stop the shell game.

What you saw a couple years ago is a shell of what he is today.

We look forward to building on our own demanding high standards and our excellent working relationship with Shell to deliver this new MEG plant safely and successfully. This award further confirms Foster Wheeler's position as one of the leading engineering, procurement and construction contractors in Singapore.

He has come out of his shell so much in the last two years. We've tried to make him feel normal, if there is such a thing.

He was a rare one: only 5 feet 7 inches tall, a lawyer and a combat veteran of the Korean War as a Marine officer. Eddie came from Washington in a trade in 1960 and ran the team in the first years while Don Meredith was learning. He was such a fantastic ball handler that even with sorry protection and the defensive line crashing in on him he threw a lot of beautiful long passes. The ball would fly out of the crowd like a mortar shell and sail 50 yards downfield. Eddie did everything by the numbers. If the receiver wasn't there, we knew whose fault it was.

He was very quiet. The other thing was that he had a shell about him, and you couldn't get to know him. He seemed likeable enough, but you couldn't get inside the shell.

He looked me in the eye and told me, 'I want to help the guys. I want to help win a state championship,' ... At that point, he became one of those special kids. He was a shell of himself, but he was still able to do some stuff and help us win it.

There is no conviction. Is the economy slowing down or is the red-hot momentum continuing? I think people are really shell shocked by the crazy volatility.

My position is, at the end of the day, there will be some sort of shell office in St. Louis. It will be a facade.

Log Cabin's accounting shell game will not cover up Grover's act of utter betrayal of the Reagan coalition of social and fiscal conservatives.

That boycott will be against Texaco, Shell and BP. Those two have been chosen initially. We will be adding to that list as we go along letting people know what they need to do.

OPEC is expected to announce it will not cut production. We believe they have an agreement with America that it will help the U.S. economy to recover. We are buyers of Shell and BP. They have strong visibility.

I think just working as hard as we possibly can, without dying! And always, always trying to write the best songs we could possibly make. And just to come out of our shell a little bit more.

I think there's always going to be a group of people who are willing to do that, especially as you get more empty nesters. In those households, the pet takes on incredible importance as a member of the family and people are willing to shell out incredible amounts of money to keep them healthy.

I think things got a little tough in the second period when it got a little physical. Some of our guys went in a little shell and didn't want to get hit or didn't get hit. They just plain outplayed us today.

It is pretty sad that Shell is spending a lot of money to rebuild their image and then goes on to score such an own goal. I think it is shabby of Shell.

I thought we would run the ball a little bit more, especially in the first half, but that wasn't a play that was called. They also had a weak secondary, so either way you look at it, whatever we did, we should have capitalized on it. It's not good when they're playing a soft cover-two shell and we don't put up the numbers that we should have put up.

The pressure is all self-imposed, and it's to live up to the expectations of people who are going to shell out their hard-earned cash to listen to the music. It's actually more than that, though. I wouldn't want to make a record that didn't live up to my expectations.

We have had some bumper figures from Exxon and that augurs well for Shell later in the week.

We can't imagine a better anniversary present than this. Especially since the tournament is making its debut this week on the new Tournament Course at Redstone Golf Club, which was designed specifically to host the Shell Houston Open.

We have always wanted to fix a meeting and this has been arranged for Friday. Shell have treated the private investor very badly indeed. There are a considerable number of private investors in Royal Dutch Petroleum who have not taken up the offer.

The acquisition of Shell Coal is a major strategic step in this regard, and represents a springboard for Anglo Coal into Australia.

We were up 26-19, and it looked like things were clicking. But for a few minutes, we went in our little shell and gave them some easy baskets.

We've lost 450,000 barrels a day of production, which is significant. Shell hasn't given us much of an idea of when they will be able to restore output. This is a pretty reasonable reaction given that we don't know how long it will be before the production is back to normal.

The real dilemma they have is future reserve growth. Shell isn't up to the game compared with BP.

There is a little bit of shell shock that's going on among donors,

There is a little bit of shell shock that's going on among donors. The tsunami got a huge response. . . . Katrina got a huge response, and I think that people are a little caught off guard by this one.

We've seen a continuing build up of artillery in the western part of Kosovo so he can shell into Albania...he's hitting civilians,

We only had about eight square miles of land. The Germans were up in the hills firing down on us. We spent four months under constant shell fire. One of those guns up there was on rails. Big! You could hear those shells coming. Of course, the ones you could hear were probably not going to hit you. It was the ones you couldn't hear,

When Chris Johnson runs for three yards, it makes you a little concern. I don't know if we are creating huge holes for them. We have to look at it and try to figure out what the problem is. This is a defense that plays a shell and will make you get four, five or six and say in a 80-yard drive you will shoot yourself in the foot. That worries me because we have had a tendency to shoot ourselves with mistakes.

We should have the shell for the 50- by 80-foot building done by then and then we can start finishing the inside, We're only going to build until we run out of money. As long as we have heat and lights in the building, we can work on it ourselves.

We've come through a lot, ... Whatever we do, this is for this team. It's time to forget about everybody else. We need to put ourselves in a little shell and look at each other and depend on each other and pick each other up. That's pretty much what it's all about.

Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul? Thoughts that I ask others several upon several, still feeling spirits upon spirits with the few moments of love, comfort, unity, & compassion all in a few seconds the holding of each other. The hole that is missing is slowly filled with happiness, joy, good or bad times.

Whether or not an operating system has a remote command shell says nothing about its ability to withstand other attacks such as denial of service attacks.

Crude is back above $61 a barrel -- something that will buoy the likes of Shell and BP -- and in turn give the FTSE some support in early trade, but once again the implications this news has on industry as a whole may yet weigh on broader stocks in the days ahead.

Earl came through big for us. He came out of his ... I don't want to call it a slump, but he came out of his shell tonight.

At the first parents' meeting I'll ask if there is anything I should know about a child. And I'll hear a parent say their daughter is very shy. But usually within a week or so they come out of their shell and they are right up there with the rest of the girls. I think it is because they know they aren't by themselves and they are part of the team. It really feels fantastic for us to see that happen with these girls.

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the Spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and in the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple; and those people who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side.

The Shell Houston Open is already on the map. The tournament already attracts the best who are out there. But I think this will attract even more of the best who are out there. That's good for Houston. Houston becomes a landmark.

It was touch and go for most of the time. If Shell and our other sponsors had not come through, it would not have been possible. It would have just been too much.

We all know that we're up in the rarified air as far as price. But I think people realize now that we're not making this up. It's a real budget, not a shell game. The community has said it wants a 50-year building, not a 27-year building. Well, if you really want it, here's the price tag.

We had a shell of the child we brought to the hospital.

We did a good job bouncing back and our guys came together and they battled. I think foul trouble really hurt both teams and especially us with Cedric Simmons in foul trouble. (Simmons) was really only a shell of himself trying not to pick up extra fouls.

Normally, shell companies, special banks, jurisdictional problems are all set up to make a paper trail more difficult for regulators to follow. The nature of this atrocity, however, is such that there are signs that people who don't usually cooperate will cooperate this time, ... The Laundrymen.

Sources tell us Jessica may be willing to shell out as much money as she has to in order to make this whole thing go away.

Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

Rural people have told us that their perception of this is it's a city bonspiel. The city guys get to sleep in their own beds, while the rural guys shell out all kinds of money. The casual, fun type of curling that they used to participate in is not worth the $1,000 it's going to cost if you are planning to come in and spend a whole week here.

FEMA has proven to be a shell of what it once was and has been unable, and seemingly unwilling, to provide the direct and immediate resources necessary in the aftermath of the most devastating natural disaster in American history,

Embrace the negative, for within its crusty shell lies a pearl waiting to be discovered.

First we got the outer shell built. We've had the interior finished as needed.

Five years ago, you couldn't pay people to live downtown. Capital was fleeing. All the development was up north. Downtown was running risk of becoming a shell of its former self.

There is no reason why Shell could not have done this at the start and if they had, then it could have saved a lot of heartache,

This is an attempt to play a shell game with the law.

This is a ridiculous decision! The soul of Bing Dian has been extinguished. Only a shell is left. If the staff decides to protest, no one will do the job. It will be an empty paper on March 1.

This is nothing but a shell game, picking and choosing to make the benefits to cost analysis come out the way they want. It's a shell game with sand and mud.

The biggest culprit is plastic residue left in the barrel. Rust develops underneath that plastic and can pit the barrel. Besides that, recoil increases. Extraction of the shell is less efficient, especially with the semi-automatics.

Shell employees will pay a terrible price for the use of Shell facilities in the attack of communities in the Niger delta.

Shellfish is better to buy live. In the U.S., because we eat oysters and clams raw, it is very important that they are alive before we prepare them. It's important to look for a closed shell. If a clam is alive, the shell will be closed. Never buy clams if the shell is open.

Shell has had another poor performance with the drill bit.

Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

Shell has saved money so it has a responsibility to help right the wrong of leaving individual holders with a large tax bill.

Shell is a nationwide company. But we choose the Shell Houston Open to put our footprints where we would like them to be.

Shell is getting near crisis point. Although the Asia crisis has bottomed out, the rest of the world has dropped off.

Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies must be forced to face up to their wider responsibilities - on climate change, on the environment and on human rights.

Shell is such a long turnaround story that BP looks a less risky bet.

Shell Oil has made an offer to Barrett, ... I think they're going to have to make a higher offer to buy the company.

At times we could hear the shell casings from the A-10s land on the buildings we were in,

The consumer is still in there slugging away. There is no reason to think the consumer is going to pull back into some shell and go away.

The kids love it. With that kind of arc, you can actually see the shell as it is lobbed through the air by the mortar and follow it down until it impacts.

That's a great way to put it. We kind of got in a shell the first week of our (league) season. We didn't do the little things. I told them I wanted them to learn from that.

It's very hard to get access to those trailers, and very few people want to hook them up in their driveway and live next to the shell of their house.

I had enough of both of those men arguing and shouting each other down. Everyone else present had enough as well. But the next thing you know, Tony throws a red turtle shell at Jon and hit him hard in the head.

It has been suggested that you can trace the route of a modern army by looking at shell casings and used batteries.

I just saw a picture, and there was water up to the top of a Shell station sign. Our place is near there. There is so much water. I have lived there three or four years, and I am sure all my belongings are gone.

But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me.

Certainly this is saying that Shell is going to miss some deliveries after the explosion. It's a question of how long the delays will last, but 180,000 barrels per day is not that big.

But you can still catch snook up the river. They're catching snook up the Peace River around Shell Creek and north of The Navigator.