Shells Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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.

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

...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.

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

I'm a bombshell, so I'm going to do me. If I want to go platinum, I'm going platinum.

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.

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

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.

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

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

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

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

If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."

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

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.

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

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

Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Jeezum—humans were like eggshells.

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

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