Shells Quotes - Page 24

• Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Long, Pages

  JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH (1962). “THE GREAT CRASH 1929”

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• Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

  Horace Mann

  God, Religious, Taken

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.13

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• In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

  Eric Burdon

  Air, Nuts, Touring

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• Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

  John F. Kennedy

  Law, Community, Shadow

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Stories, Clamor, Single Word

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• How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dark, Men, Skins

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

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• Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

  Saadi

  Heart, Body, Fit

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.156, Innovations and Information

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• I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

  Martial

  Lakes, Water, Noble

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• To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew stone, would have been unworthy of Palladio; and to have rambled in search of shells and flowers, had but ill suited with the capacity of Newton.

  Samuel Johnson

  Flower, Mean, Science

  Samuel Johnson (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.76

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• I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

  Sappho

  Music, Tortoises, Instruments

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Nba, Play, Eggs

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• I have perceived much beauty
  In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight;
  Heard music in the silentness of duty;
  Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.

  Wilfred Owen

  Beauty, War, Storm

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.172

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• The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Ego, Hardest, Hardest Thing

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.11, Souvenir Press

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• Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Play, Would Be

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

  Daniel Handler

  Sex, People, Risk

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• For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels-at the very least with the tongues of angels-they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes.

  Joy Williams

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.123, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

  Haruki Murakami

  Essence, Might, Easier

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• One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Self, Way

  Robert Benchley (1928). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Or, David Cooperfield”

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• It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Heart, Echoes, True Life

  "Song: 'Rachel' ('Out Seeing The Fields')". 2007.

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• On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Tired, Hands

  M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.26, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence.  If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell.

  Peter Rollins

  Commitment, Responsibility, Doe

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• The Reproductions of the living Ens
  From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence...
  Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells,
  And coral-insects build their radiate shells...
  Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,
  And fathers live transmitted in their sons;
  Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds,
  The same their manners, and the same their minds.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Running, Sex, Father

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• I had drawn away into the salt,
  myself, a shell
  emptied of life.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Solitude, Salt, Introspection

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Mean, Thinking, Facts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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