Shells Quotes

In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

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

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.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

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.

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.

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

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

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

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

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

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

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.