Shellfish Quotes

• 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

  Food, Men, Oysters

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

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• Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Cat, Thinking, Sheep

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• ....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

  Pliny the Elder

  Causes, Moral, Adaptation

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• I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

  Daniel Pauly

  Animal, Ideas, Water

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

  Paul Neilan

  Oysters, World, Allergic

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• Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Tears, Disease

  Journal 11 June (1852)

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• ...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

  Pliny the Elder

  Food, Sea, Cooking

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• What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

  Emile Zola

  Rubbish, Exquisite, Quantity

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• She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don’t come out.

  Janet Frame

  Beach, Black, Littles

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• I'm a big fan of featuring all of the local shellfish and seafood provided.

  Mario Batali

  Fans, Bigs, Locals

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

  John Flanagan

  Surprising, Decided

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• We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.

  Dan Savage

  Bible, Learning, Gay

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• The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.

  Julia Child

  People, Scary, Fishes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he did. It is well known, Justinian declared, that buggery is a principal cause of earthquakes, and so must be prohibited. But our sky-godders, always eager to hate, still quote Leviticus, as if that looney text had anything useful to say about anything except, perhaps, the inadvisability of eating shellfish in the Jerusalem area.

  Gore Vidal

  Hate, Men, Sky

  "America First? America Last? America at Last?". Lowell Lecture, Harvard University, April 20, 1992.

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• I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.

  Carl Reiner

  Atheist, Hurt, Men

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• Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

  Jules Verne

  Men, Creative, Captains

  Jules Verne (2013). “Captain Nemo: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• 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

  Years, Oysters, Cocktails

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• I always compare young missioners to the kids who naively signed up to go to Iraq to fight terrorism. They are just the foot soldiers in the spiritual war that Mike Bickle and Lou Engle are waging against what they consider sin. They will say it is biblical truth, but the Bible says many things, and you don't see anyone saying that slavery is okay or that we should not eat shellfish. Why the fascination with sex?

  Roger Ross Williams

  Spiritual, Sex, War

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• Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

  David Attenborough

  Years, Littles, Doing Nothing

  The Time Out Interview, www.timeout.com. September 20, 2013.

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• I can't grill vegetables, shellfish or steaks without tongs. Don't bother with those long-handled grilling tongs normally found in the BBQ section of your home store. Get intimate with your grill and opt for the regular stainless steel tongs.

  Bobby Flay

  Home, Vegetables, Bbq

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• I'm trying, now that I am in my dotage, to use a lot less sugar and my husband and I really try to keep close to a minimum of fat; chicken, fish, loads of salads and legumes. We both love all of those. To be honest, nothing that is in our diet is that original. We eat seafood but we do not eat shellfish. On the other hand, if my body says to me, "eat meat" I do. I listen to my body, I think that's important.

  Rita Moreno

  Husband, Thinking, Hands

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• Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution. Two years ago, Pfiesteria outbreaks connected with wastes from industrial chicken factories forced the closure of two major tributaries of the Chesapeake and threatened Maryland's vital shellfish industry. Tyson Foods has polluted half of all streams in northwestern Arkansas with so much fecal bacteria that swimming is prohibited. Drugs and hormones needed to keep confined animals alive and growing are mainly excreted with the wastes and saturate local waterways.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Swimming, Animal, Agriculture

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• You have to be cautious of eating continuously the same thing. Beef comes to mind right away, and there's nothing wrong with beef, but you've got to do whatever you're doing in moderation. So try to break it up a little bit. Eat some fish or some shellfish at least a couple of times a week.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Couple, Mind, Trying

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