Clams Quotes

• Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

  Don Bluth

  Film, Enormous, Studios

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• She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Food, Rose, Cooking

  Louis Kronenberger (1970). “The Cutting Edge”

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• 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

  Oysters, Shrimp, Matter

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

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• It's all the same to the clam.

  Shel Silverstein

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Venus De Milo, Society

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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• Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Hands, Dancing

  Song: Do The Clam, Album: Girl Happy

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• Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Cat Eye, Hard

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

  Dr. Seuss

  Lucky, Jam, Ham

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• The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Ants, Form, Equal

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• There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

  Mary Oliver

  Beach, Book, Years

  Source: balisha-neverenoughtime.blogspot.com

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• When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

  Ram Kapoor

  Cold, Angry

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Stars, Patriotic, Yankees

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• It is a dead heart.
  It is inside of me.
  It is a stranger
  yet once it was agreeable,
  opening and closing like a clam.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Stranger, Closing

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

  Benjamin Carson

  Real, School, Thinking

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• Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

  Matsuo Basho

  Autumn, Shells, Torn

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• My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

  Todd English

  White, Sauce, Favorites Things

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• 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.

  Oysters, Knowing, Feelings

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• 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

  Father, Book, Oysters

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams.  I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

  Mario Batali

  Dream, Thinking, Teach

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• This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Life, Catharsis, Projects

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Humorous, Struggle

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Collected poems: Not so deep as a well”

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• Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?

  Annie Proulx

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Annie Proulx (1994). “The Shipping News”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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