Crabs Quotes - Page 3

• The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

  Paul Fleischman

  Life, Friendship, Eye

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• Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

  Amy Tan

  Jesus, Thinking, Quality

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

  David Gerrold

  Art, Lice, Acts Of Love

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• A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.

  Travie McCoy

  Kings, Shrimp, Legs

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• Writing on the wall: Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth.

  Edward Abbey

  Wall, Writing, Two

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• But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.

  Willa Cather

  Strong, Heart, Son

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• 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

  Beauty, Pain, Oysters

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• For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

  Annie Proulx

  Pain, Ocean, Fire

  "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.

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• Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They're tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.

  Daniel Quinn

  Fall, Rocks, Eagles

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• The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world. The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway. We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

  Alan Lightman

  Stars, Views, Ideas

  Alan Lightman (2000). “Great Ideas in Physics”, p.4, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

  Gabe Newell

  Space, Giants, Wanted

  "Pinch Spaceships, Look Stupid: Living The Life Of A Giant Space Crab" by Ryan Rigney, www.wired.com. April 26, 2013.

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• He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Country, Men, Garden

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• If a D.C. event doesn't have crab cakes, it's low-rent and you need to flee.

  Tony Hale

  Cake, Events, Needs

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• It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Funny, Kings, Marine

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• You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

  Lisa Kleypas

  Trying, Ems, Shallow

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• It's always weird when I meet people who don't know how to crack crabs open and eat them the right way. I take a lot of pride in my crab-eating ability.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Pride, People, Cracks

  Interview with Dan Singer, brightestyoungthings.com. August 22, 2014.

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• Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the heart, clawing at your insides. Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs; it burns, burns, and has no fur. Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.

  Pablo Neruda

  Disappointment, Heart, Moon

  Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (2004). “The essential Neruda: selected poems”, p.139, City Lights Books

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• I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.

  Demetri Martin

  Together, Hermit Crabs, Hermits

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• While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and a mite that lives in the oil glands of our foreheads, depend on us entirely. But if ants were to disappear, tens of thousands of other plants and animal species would perish also, simplifying and weakening land ecosystems almost everywhere.

  E. O. Wilson

  Animal, Land, Ecosystems

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• I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

  Ian Fleming

  Iron, Long, Drunk

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• If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.

  Rick Riordan

  Looks, Mouths, Size

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

  Bill Maher

  Ducks, Bird, Mermaid

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

  Jim Himes

  Blue, Oysters, England

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• Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

  Mark Teixeira

  Cake, Baltimore, Snob

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• In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

  H. L. Mencken

  Food, Cooking, Jocks

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