Shells Quotes - Page 6

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

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.

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

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

To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

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

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Strength is an empty shell.

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

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

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.