Shells Quotes - Page 4

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.

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

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

...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.

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

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.

Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

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?

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?

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].

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

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

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.

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.

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.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

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.

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.

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.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

The Sacred Bombshell knows that her creative feminine energy is a catalyst. She remembers her womb wisdom.

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