A Quote by Paul Neilan

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

Paul Neilan

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Paul Neilan
American - Novelist

I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

Carl Reiner

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country.

Tom Douglas

I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.

Morgan Saylor

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Ambrose Bierce

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

Ian Gardner

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

Steve Scalise

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Rebecca West

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.