Crabs Quotes - Page 5

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies. Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have.

George Carlin

Sex, Thinking, Numbers

Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.

Sam Snead

Green, Ants, Remember

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The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.

Carl Hiaasen

Book, Cutting, Sea

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One night I was in bed-and remember that I'm on the second floor of a hotel-when I spotted this crab coming toward me across the floor, watching me with his beady little crab eyes. I think he wanted to get in bed with me.

Jennifer Esposito

Eye, Night, Thinking

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Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.

Catherynne M. Valente

Letting Go, Wrestling, Blue

Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.167, Macmillan

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...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

Steve Martin

Men, Scarves, Shells

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It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual.

Phyllis George

Thinking, Texas, Cities

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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.

Winfield Scott

Army, Fortresses, Chesapeake Bay

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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.

Mark Twain

Country, Science, Law

Mark Twain (2012). “Three by Twain: Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arther's Court”, p.63, Graphic Arts Books

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Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle.

Howard Wilkinson

Running, Zidane, Champion

"The forgotten winners Sir Alex Ferguson left behind" by Rob Bagchi, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2011.

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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.

Charles Olson

Running, Nebula, Swirls

Charles Olson (1997). “Collected Prose”, p.252, Univ of California Press

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As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

Thom Yorke

Boys, Lobster, Nuclear

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On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal,
When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

Nas

Rap, Hip Hop, Revolution

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And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. I’m not talking ‘giant’ like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I’m talking ‘giant’ like bigger than the fountain.

Rick Riordan

Kings, Talking, Giants

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Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I've never been a traditional tourist. I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things in a different way. Places look different in the early-morning hours, when the streets are deserted.

Grete Waitz

Inspirational, Running, Morning

"On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People".

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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

Tori Amos

Father, Beer, Corn On The Cob

"Tori Amos: I'd start the day with three dozen oysters then a rare steak. I felt powerful on stage'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

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