Oysters Quotes:

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

topic: Oysters, Upkeep, Needs

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

topic: Country, Oysters, America, Settlers

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

topic: Father, Book, Oysters, Clams

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

topic: Food, Adventure, Oysters, Delicious Food, Kitchen Confidential

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

topic: Ocean, Thinking, Oysters

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

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Wine, Oysters, White, White Wine, Housekeepers

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

- Barbara Walters

topic: Oysters, Used, Found

A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.

- Barten Holyday

topic: Men, Oysters, Law

The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!

- Bhartrhari

topic: Sacrifice, Oysters, Pearls

So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?

- Billy Connolly

topic: Funny, Sexy, Oysters, Disco

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

topic: Oysters, Risk, Louisiana

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 Duffy

source: "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

topic: Oysters, Creative, Trying, Irritants

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

- Chris Evert

topic: Determination, Hard Work, Oysters

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

- Chris Gardner

topic: Inspirational, Oysters, World

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Oysters, Contentment, Elements

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

- Christie Brinkley

topic: Life Is Too Short, Oysters, Sometimes

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

topic: Book, Oysters, Envy, Faustus, Sweepers

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

topic: Writing, Hands, Oysters

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

- Edward Lear

source: Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen

topic: Oysters, Said

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

- Edward Lear

source: Edward Lear (2001). “The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense”, Lane, Allen

topic: Oysters, Said

Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines ...

- Eleanor Clark

source: Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Color, Oysters, Sea

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

- Eleanor Clark

source: 1964 The Oysters of Locmariaquer, ch.1.

topic: Love Life, Oysters, Enjoy, Shiver

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

topic: Party, Oysters, Letters

Has every oyster a different taste?

- Errol Flynn

topic: Wisdom, Australia, Oysters, Different Tastes

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Art, Oysters, Pearls

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

topic: Heart, Oysters, May, Uncouth

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

topic: Beautiful, Oysters, Long

The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

- George Hamilton

topic: Football, Oysters, Trying

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

topic: Night, Oysters, Joy, Joy Ride, Free Advice

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

topic: Love, Irritation, Oysters

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion....Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

- Hector Hugh Munro

topic: Beautiful, Buddhism, Oysters

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Believe, Oysters, Excellence

They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.

- Hubert Selby, Jr.

topic: Knowing, Oysters, Feelings, Clams

A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

- Hugh Bonneville

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Oysters, Typical

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

topic: Attachment, Oysters, Firsts

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Mother, Wine, Oysters, Champagne Drinking, Drinking Champagne

The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

- Janet Fitch

topic: White, Oysters, Pearls, Oleanders, Warm

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

- Jim Himes

topic: Blue, Oysters, England, Unbeatable

I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika.

- Jim Himes

topic: Wine, Beer, Oysters, White Wine, Clams

Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine...

- Jimmy Buffett

topic: Beer, Oysters, Years, Days Of The Year

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

- John Banville

topic: Memories, Real, Oysters

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Food, Men, Oysters, Eating Food, Great Food

It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother

- Joyce Maynard

topic: Mother, Men, Oysters

[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

- Kate Orff

topic: Beautiful, Ocean, Oysters, Algae

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.

- Katie Aselton

topic: Oysters, Weird Things

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

- Kenneth Tynan

topic: Oysters, Hollywood, Pearls

Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

- L.P. Hartley

source: L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.104, Penguin UK

topic: Oysters, Realizing, Speak

Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and...

- Lauren Willig

topic: Loss, Oysters, Hands

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

- Leonardo da Vinci

topic: Fate, Moon, Oysters, Seaweed, Crabs

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Oysters, Needs, Bread, Walrus

O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none - And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Running, Home, Oysters, Walrus, Trotting

You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.

- Lillian Russell

topic: Eye, Oysters, Whales, Eating Raw

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

- M. F. K. Fisher

topic: Oysters, Exciting, Exciting Life

My taste includes both snails and oysters.

- Marcus Licinius Crassus

topic: Oysters, Taste, Snail

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.

- Maxine Hong Kingston

topic: Ocean, Dragons, Oysters

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

- Michael Fassbender

topic: Oysters, Kitchen, Should

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

- Nicolas Chamfort

topic: Men, Oysters, Literature

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Oysters, World, Manners, Good Manners, Table Manners

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

- Paul Merton

topic: Oysters, Guy, Festivals, Marvellous

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

- Paul Neilan

topic: Oysters, World, Allergic, Shellfish

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

- Paul Smith

topic: Luxury, Oysters, World

Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!

- Paul Stamets

topic: Oysters, Mushrooms, Numbers

Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

- Paul Stamets

source: "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

topic: Oysters, Mushrooms, Environmental, Environmental Health

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

- Plato

topic: Oysters, Body, Shells

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

- Randall Jarrell

topic: Oysters, Pearls

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

- Ray Romano

topic: Attitude, Oysters, Identity, Identity Crisis

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

- Rebecca Wells

source: Rebecca Wells (1999). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

topic: Party, Oysters, Half

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

- Richard Eyre

source: "A life in theatre: Richard Eyre" by Andrew Dickson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

topic: Thinking, Self, Oysters

Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

- Richard Simmons

topic: Lying, Order, Oysters, Mayonnaise, French Bread

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

- Robin McKinley

topic: Ocean, Oysters, What If, Grains Of Sand

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

- Sarah Waters

topic: Sweet, Believe, Oysters, Narcissus

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

- Sheila Ballantyne

source: Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Imaginary crimes”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Oysters, Pearls, Aces, Irritants

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

- Shirley Chisholm

topic: Men, Oysters, Firsts

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

- Stephen King

topic: Oysters, Grit, Pearls, Dabs

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

- Sylvia Earle

topic: Blue, Oysters, Whales, Chesapeake Bay, Coral Reefs

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Attitude, Men, Oysters, Seize The Moment, Seize The Opportunity

The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this...

- Tim Allen

topic: Successful, Phones, Oysters, Remember When

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'

- Tim Vine

topic: Funny, Oysters, Giving

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

- Tom Robbins

topic: Kissing, Oysters, Mermaid

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

- Willa Gibbs

topic: Oysters, Mind, Open Mind

Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

- William Cowper

topic: Moving, Oysters, Water

Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Honesty, Oysters, House

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

- Woody Allen

topic: Witty, Food, Oysters, Delicious Food, Eating Food

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

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

topic: Knives, Oysters, World, Lurking, African Women

For me, if there's anything that would represent me and my style of cooking, it would be a seafood platter. Maybe a perfectly shucked oyster with a bit of lemon and cocktail sauce or mignonette sauce.

- Chuck Hughes

source: Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

topic: Oysters, Cooking, Style, Seafood

I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.

- Frank Fairfield

source: "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

topic: Jobs, Moving, Oysters, Odd Jobs

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Oysters, Months, Paychecks

If you come out of British TV, they're kind of saying, "Here's the keys to the kingdom. You are now going to go off and become a moviemaker. If you do really well, then the world is your oyster.

- Peter Webber

topic: Keys, Oysters, World, Keys To The Kingdom

James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

- Steven Knight

topic: Oysters, Class, Revolution

Wine is a chemical symphony. and The Aesthetic differentiation of Chesapeake Bay oysters and Olympia oysters occurs only after we can really differentiate them. This differentiation cannot occur until we are thoroughly familiar with both. The same is true with wines.

- Maynard Amerine

topic: Wine, Oysters, Symphony, Chesapeake Bay, Differentiate

The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.

- Michael Heseltine

topic: Oysters, Two, World, Super Power

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

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Oysters

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

- Ross Perot

topic: Oysters, Pearls, Roles In Life, Grains Of Sand

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

- Roy Blount, Jr.

topic: Oysters, Way, Died

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

- Steve Scalise

source: "What I've Learned: Representative Steve Scalise (R, La.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 19, 2010.

topic: Oysters, World, Taste

I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card.

- Jason Flemyng

source: Source: www.mirror.co.uk

topic: Oysters, Cards, Towns

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

- Charles Dickens

source: 'Pickwick Papers' (1837) ch. 22 (Sam Weller)

topic: Oysters, Together, Poverty

Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Oysters, Turkeys, Games, Pears, Chestnuts

Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from relief at the sound of his voice. Trey released my arm and shrugged, grinning. “I just wanted an oyster, and she wouldn’t serve me.” I opened my mouth to protest when the warm fingers holding my arm softly squeezed me for reassurance. So, I stayed quiet. “Jason, please escort your friend to the door. I have no other reason to speak with him unless Sadie has a bruise or any lasting marks from his hands, and then he will see me again.

- Abbi Glines

topic: Doors, Hands, Oysters, Sadie

Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?

- Leonardo da Vinci

source: Leonardo (da Vinci), Carlo Pedretti, Martin Kemp, Owen Gingerich, American Museum of Natural History (1996). “Codex Leicester: a masterpiece of science”

topic: Science, Oysters, Sea

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

- Federico Fellini

source: The Atlantic, December 1965.

topic: Art, Jewels, Oysters, Jewellery, Jewelry Boxes

Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.

- Florynce Kennedy

source: Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

topic: Thinking, Oysters, Pearls, Sweatshirts

It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

source: Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Being and Nothingness”, p.617, Open Road Media

topic: Oysters, Shrimp, Matter, Clams

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

- Agatha Christie

topic: Oysters, People, Trouble, Causing Trouble

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

- Fred Rogers

topic: Oysters, Worry, Might, Grains Of Sand, Flashy

If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

- Fred Wilson

topic: Creativity, Oysters, Needs, Contamination

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.259, e-artnow

topic: Oysters, Sick, Littles

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

- Christopher Morley

source: Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

topic: Men, Oysters, Water, Iridescent, Kettles

The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.

- M. F. K. Fisher

source: M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.7, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Stress, Passion, Oysters, Exciting Life

Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine.

- M. F. K. Fisher

source: Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Oysters, Years, Eggs

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

- M. F. K. Fisher

source: Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Life, Oysters, Shapes, Dissipation

This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.

- M. F. K. Fisher

source: M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.71, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Food, Oysters, Soup

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: New York, Writing, Oysters

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

- Garry Shandling

topic: Oysters, Performances

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

source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.177, University of Georgia Press

topic: Food, Men, Oysters, Shellfish

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Oysters, Knives, Parent

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.125, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Oysters, Shells, Toads

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

- Ani DiFranco

source: Song: Dilate Complete Album, Album: Dilate, 1996

topic: Home, Oysters, World, Better Off Alone

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

- Randall Jarrell

source: Randall Jarrell (2010). “Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy”, p.181, University of Chicago Press

topic: Oysters, Pearls

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question.../ Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' / Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.90, Penguin

topic: Love You, Night, Oysters, Sawdust, Muttering

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

- John Hodgman

source: "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 14, 2009.

topic: August, Oysters, June, Killjoy

So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me, 'Can you give me a lift?' I said, 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it!'

- Tim Vine

source: "Comedy preview" by Wiliam Cook, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

topic: Funny, Humor, Oysters, Blokes

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.169, Courier Corporation

topic: Oysters, Ants, Bees

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

source: Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.484, Open Road Media

topic: Oysters, Palate, Please

We can conceive a thinking being to have either many or few perceptions. Suppose the mind to be reduced even below the life of anoyster. Suppose it to have only one perception, as of thirst or hunger. Consider it in that situation. Do you conceive any thing but merely that perception? Have you any notion of self or substance? If not, the addition of other perceptions can never give you that notion.

- David Hume

source: David Hume (2015). “A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated”, p.786, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

topic: Thinking, Self, Oysters

An oyster may be crossed in love.

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

source: 'The Critic' (1779) act 3, sc. 1

topic: Love, Oysters, May

I live absolutely like an oyster.

- Gustave Flaubert

source: Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.81, e-artnow

topic: Oysters

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

- Arthur Miller

source: 'Death of a Salesman' (1949) act 1

topic: Oysters, Cracks, World, Mattresses

When I was younger, I ate nothing but fried food. Everything was fried, from oysters to chicken to potatoes to vegetables. When you die in New Orleans, they deep fry you before they put you in the coffin. When we baptize children in New Orleans, we baptize them with a bordelaise sauce; we don't use water.

- Richard Simmons

source: Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 2, 2012.

topic: Children, New Orleans, Oysters, Fried Food

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

- Hannah Arendt

source: Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

topic: Oysters, Matter, Taste, Disturbing Things

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Years, Oysters, Cocktails, Shellfish

I don't belong to any club or group. I don't fish, cook, dance, endorse books, sign books, co-sign declarations, eat oysters, get drunk, go to church, go to analysts, or take part in demonstrations.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: "Strong Opinions" by Vladimir Nabokov, (p. 18), 1973.

topic: Book, Oysters, Drunk

....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.

- Jules Verne

topic: Men, Order, Oysters, Indigestion, Nitrogen

The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

topic: Oysters, Violence, Resorts

Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk?

- Doug Stanhope

topic: Fall, Oysters, Medicine, Modern Medicine

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

- Juvenal

topic: Food, Oysters, Differences

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

- Roger Moore

topic: Nice, Oysters, France, Favourite Places

The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.299, Northwestern University Press

topic: Food, Light, Oysters

In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet.

- Horace Mann

source: Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.49

topic: Country, Men, Oysters, Heiress, Succulents

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

- William Makepeace Thackeray

source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Confessions of Fitz-Booddle; and Some Passages in the Life of Major Gahagan”, p.171

topic: Oysters, Sauce, Bread

I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.57

topic: Love You, Oysters, May

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. 2

topic: Oysters, World, Mines, Windsor

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

- Sallust

topic: Oysters, Culture, Poor, Britons

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Beauty, Pain, Oysters, Haughty, No Pain

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.

- J. K. Rowling

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Oysters, World, Can Do

I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.

- Ellen DeGeneres

topic: Inspirational, Oysters, Voice

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

- Nicolas Chamfort

topic: Oysters, Firsts, Eating

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

- Jan Morris

source: Jan Morris (2008). “Venice”, p.167, Faber & Faber

topic: Hands, Oysters, Cities, Brics