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I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up.

These weapons were sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab for testing, and the results of those tests show a positive match between the weapons recovered in Alabama, the shell casings found at the scene and the projectiles removed from the body of Deputy Kinchen,

They inspected the shell casings and determined they were empty. They said it would be safe to remove the remaining slabs. They came back today with a crew from the Crane Naval Depot and determined they were empty and harmless.

It is the only time you see a bus on Main Street in Shell Rock.

In fact, once I start rehabbing, few people will be able to find me. I will go into a shell and work like I've never worked before. Don't feel sorry for me.

A raindrop coming in contact with fire looses it's existence while that falling on a shell becomes a 'pearl'. Therefore, people desirous of knowledge should avoid the company of ignorant people who believe in the motto- ignorance is bliss .

APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

An oyster shell opened up after the 2002 Olympics.

The name never came up. It's bizarre...Is Shell going to compete with itself, or is this a way of not diluting its interest (with other investors)?

It's kind of like a shell game. They'll move the profit around so you won't be able to find it,

For many people, the Escambia Bay Bridge in Pensacola is the enduring image of the hurricanes. The picture of that broken bridge with the haunting shell of Robert Alvarado's 18-wheeler was seen around the world as a symbol of Florida's devastation and despair.

(It's) not that expensive when you consider what women shell out over time.

Eggs have porous shells, so it's best to keep them in the carton they come in or in a covered container in your refrigerator - don't use the egg slots in the refrigerator, or they'll become stale quicker, Fresh shell eggs can last four to five weeks after the expiration date without real loss of quality as long as they're in their cartons in the refrigerator.

Its essential religious nature does not change whether it is called 'creation science' or 'intelligent design' or 'sudden emergence theory. The shell game has to stop.

It's a shell game and it's the kind of shell game that I think taxpayers have been skeptical about. It's a shame when we play into it.

What's tough for Jenny is that she's the only freshman on the team and she has an older sister who is just a phenomenal soccer player. She tends to be kind of quiet, but she comes out and plays hard. I think next year (after) Estelle has graduated, Jenny will come out of her shell a little more, which makes sense.

We had supply problems throughout 2005, worsening an already difficult situation. At the same time, terms and conditions to secure more silicon were aggressive and not acceptable to Shell. The silicon dependence of crystalline will remain a challenge to the industry and as such Shell has decided to focus on next-generation technologies.

We expect these disruptions to be a continuous feature of 2006 oil markets. Shell is the most leveraged and may need to consider asset swaps to dilute its exposure -- both financially and politically.

It's a corporate shell game of transferring assets and franchise value to a new company.

It may take a short while, but we'll get that nastiness of the Raiders back. And that's one of the reasons we're going to depend on the great Art Shell to help us get that done.

It's good that management is not going into a shell and saying they want to preserve cash for the rainiest of rainy days since it is already rainy.

I don?t look at it as a benching. I was frustrated for (Mackey). I think he?s a better player than he was showing. He just wasn?t relaxed. I think he was just a little shell shocked looking up at the scoreboard.

I can be so creative, ... There's a shell I can work with. ... I can pop out a wall.

I don't want to fly on the Delta planes. I want to fly Song. They have a different attitude. I'm more than willing to shell out 5, 6, 7 bucks to eat something other than the usual.

I'd say your were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. A Carney will at least tell you up front that he is running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what was purported to be the seventh-largest corporation in America.

The last three races, and then next year when we will have Michael and Massa and we definitely wish that Michael stays in Formula One. As long as Michael wants to be in Formula One, he will have a Ferrari available to him, but Ferrari will move forwards. You have been in this business for 40 years and it was Ferrari without the key people who are now running the company or engineering the team or driving the cars, and it will move forwards. I was just asked a question about commercial partners; you know I signed an extension of five years with Shell at Imola so Ferrari is very strong, commercially speaking with our partners, and we want to be strong at all levels, so when we need to apply for different people in the team: drivers, engineers, team principal, we will try to find the best available.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read