Shells Quotes - Page 26

• The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Sculpture

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• We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

  Michael Moore

  Moving, Games, People

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• I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.

  Garry Shandling

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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• In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

  George Carlin

  Growing Up, Yearbook, Names

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

  Fred Durst

  Feelings, Sensitivity, Sleeves

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• Thank you hard taco shells for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Journey, Long, Tacos

  "Late Night 'Thank You Notes' From Jimmy Fallon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Past, Eggs

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “The Complete Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Girl, Book, Writing

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.159, A&C Black

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• One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Writing, One Day, Tables

  "Passion play" by Stephen Romer, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2001.

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• People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Butterfly, People

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• Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dark, Reflection, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.26, GENERAL PRESS

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• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  J. G. Ballard

  People, Office, Oxfam

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• An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence

  Haruki Murakami

  Leaving, Mind, Important

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• The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

  Sylvia Plath

  Silence, Pebbles, Wreckage

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.86, Hamilton Books

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• Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question … 10 Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Oysters, Talking

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 13 (1917)

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• It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Taken, Men, Soul

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1983). “The martyred Christian: 160 readings from Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, Scribner

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• Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

  Melissa Marr

  Crush, Feelings, Easy

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• That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Funny, Daughter, Hate

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• Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.

  John Keats

  Friendship, Summer, Running

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Thoughtful, Joy

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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• But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

  Nick Hornby

  Distance, School, Home

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.232, Penguin

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• If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.

  Julia Gregson

  Night, Essence, Eggs

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• He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

  Jon Krakauer

  Nature, Heart, Air

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Soulmate, Kindness, Believe

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• We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Lying, Fall, Ducks

  Title of translation of his novel Im Westen nichts Neues (Nothing New in the West, 1929). Cf. the title of a poem by Ethel L. Beers: All Quiet along the Potomac (1861)

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