Quotes and Sayings About Shells
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You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
-- Allen Carr -
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.
-- Anais Nin -
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
-- Andy Rooney -
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
-- Anne Beatts -
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
-- Aristophanes -
I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
-- Bel Kaufman -
Young women say I helped them come out of their shells
-- Bettie Page -
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.
-- Bill Russell -
The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.
-- Bobby Jindal -
To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to "this is this" or "that is that." I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on.
-- Bruce Lee -
Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.
-- Bryan Brown -
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.
-- Celia Thaxter -
You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.
-- Charlie Higson -
In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.
-- Chris Espinosa -
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
-- Christine Lavin -
I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
-- Danica McKellar -
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.
-- David Kenyon Webster -
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.
-- David Wong -
For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
-- Dawn French -
I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.
-- Debra Granik -
I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.
-- Delta Goodrem -
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" -- that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts?
-- Douglas Hofstadter -
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.
-- Edward Forbes -
The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.
-- Edwin Campion Vaughan -
You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it.
-- Elizabeth Hand -
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
-- Elliot Johnson