Shells Quotations

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.

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.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.

I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish - they speak to me - and the shells - they ring out to me.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

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

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

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

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.

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

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.

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

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.

If it is shown that depleted uranium causes an increase in cancers, then we have got to look at alternative weapon systems and at precautions which could be taken to protect our troops, as well as at how we can clean up the areas where the shells were used.

He recounted to me that when he first saw the pictures of the bombed-out shells of the building he was really horrified.

We then decided that since we were making all the parts, why not make the shells and manufacture our own vintage suspension helmets,

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

It is a deliberate campaign against the army. We are professional. We would not fire shells at a sensitive time like this. We have not fired artillery or mortars at them for four years now.

You know how in Connecticut they store tobacco in long, white barns to cure? That's what it looked like. They had thousands of shells stored like they were in wine racks.

You'll see some bullet shells on some of the trails around campus. But that's about it.

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

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.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

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

What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

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,

It's the old shell game.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

I think with acting, since I became an actor... I, as a person, have become more confident and I have really come out of my shell somewhat... and back to myself, you know.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

Bob has dived for shells all over the world and on each piece of jewelry it says where that shell is from,

These look like hard outer shells on some parts of some outcrops, and they're darker and a little redder than the rock that they encrust.

These look like hard outer shells on some parts of some outcrops, and theyre darker and a little redder than the rock that they encrust,

There are scores of 35-story buildings going up in cities across China that would rival those in the U.S., ... These buildings are modern on the outside but shells on the inside. That's where we see opportunity.

There would be just shells of houses left, and we're lopping down big old trees around (them). It was scary most of the time. We didn't have the right equipment but somebody had to do it.

We went out in shells today. What are you doing with your pants on?

You see the shells coming in from opposition forces as well as the Taliban. The poor can only retreat, and not take care of the crops,

There's so much uneasiness and so much uncertainty as it relates to holding positions that at any opportunity, people just gather themselves and get back into their shells and wait for the next move.

The physical formulas teach you how the world really works, which is extremely useful in video games. For example, knowing about magnetism is helpful in figuring out how the tank shells would fly in a video game.

I had no idea we'd have to clean shells off the trail.

In some areas unknown persons burnt three buses and forced shopkeepers to close their shops. Police fired a few tear-gas shells to disperse them.

I wanted to support my friend Ron Meyer and his company for doing something of this significance. Is it too soon to make it? I think people will judge that for themselves. My judgment is it's not too soon. The longer you get away from it, the further your personal memories are of it. In this film, people can see how average people can rise out of their shells and do amazing things.

Strength is an empty shell.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.

All the shells are cut out of the same sphere, ... and now all have a common denominator.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

And Alex understood that Scotty Hausmann did not exist. He was a word casing in human form: a shell whose essence has vanished.

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

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.