Shells Quotations | Page 2

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

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.

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.

If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold...

Someone creeping into his yard in the dead of night? More likely there's a very shell-shocked cat wandering somewhere, covered in potato peelings.

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

We could see the children's toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn't a game at all, only the grave of a game.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it. That said, critiquing women's human shells isn't my thang. Though there's probably something funny or interesting to be said about those who do it, and what that comes from.

To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.

These shells behind us, these casings, are a testimony to the decades that have been spent creating weapons of destruction, ... The hopes in the programs that have been discussed today are that we can start using our resources to dismantle these arms and create a more peaceful and safe future for the people of Ukraine and for people all around the world.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

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.

If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case...

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.