Shells Quotes - Page 2

What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

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.

The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

...These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

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

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

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

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

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

Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

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

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

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

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.

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

I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell I love them.

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

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

Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.