Quotes and Sayings About Oysters
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Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.
-- Agyness Deyn -
People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
-- Alistair Cooke -
When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure
-- Anthony Bourdain -
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Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
-- Barbara Walters -
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
-- Barten Holyday -
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The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
-- Bhartrhari -
So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
-- Billy Connolly -
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
-- Bobby Jindal -
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
-- Carol Ann DuffySource : "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.
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I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.
-- Chris Evert -
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.
-- Chris Gardner -
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes
-- Christie Brinkley -
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!
-- Christopher Marlowe -
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.
-- Davy Crockett -
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
-- Edward LearSource : Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen
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What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.
-- Edward LearSource : Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen
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Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines ...
-- Eleanor ClarkSource : Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins
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Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.
-- Eleanor ClarkSource : 1964 The Oysters of Locmariaquer, ch.1.
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She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
-- Elizabeth Montagu -
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All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
-- Federico Fellini -
Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside.
-- Frances Sargent Osgood -
Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.
-- Frank Loesser -
The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.
-- George Hamilton -
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Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations set into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get ride of them, he uses the irritation to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has a chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but anyhow, make a pearl. And it takes faith and I love to do it.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick