Top 201 Shells Quotes & Sayings

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

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

In order to get big things done, sometimes, presidents have to be deft at moving the pea around under the shells.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

In an effort to create safety and self-reliance in your life and relationships, you may have built walls around your heart and accumulated tension in your body. Although sometimes these walls of protection are useful, they can, over time, act like shells of fear that block your true love. These shells can keep in the love you want to offer fully and keep out the love that your heart yearns to receive.

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

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.

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

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

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

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.

I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit.

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

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

In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had during the whole Boer War.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

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

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.

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.

I have played in matches where individuals have frozen and gone into their shells: they don't want the ball, they don't communicate, and they don't do their jobs. Fear turns them to stone.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

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

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that.

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

When I was in college, the Kargil War had just happened, and I remember going with my friends on a bike to collect empty shells.

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.

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million shells a year.

My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.

I'm very much a person who walks on egg shells.

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

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

Eoin Morgan and Joe Root have a really calm and open changing room. There's no tension there. You don't have to be walking on egg shells around any of the players.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

In the summer I stretch out on the shore And think of you. Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

We got hookers with heaters that'll stray pop and put more shells in your top than Adidas.

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.

But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells.

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

He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells.