Clams Quotes

• Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

  Don Bluth

  Film, Enormous, Studios

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• She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Food, Rose, Cooking

  Louis Kronenberger (1970). “The Cutting Edge”

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• It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Oysters, Shrimp, Matter

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Being and Nothingness”, p.617, Open Road Media

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Travel, Venus De Milo, Society

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8209, Delphi Classics

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• It's all the same to the clam.

  Shel Silverstein

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• Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Cat Eye, Hard

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Do the Clam, do the Clam, grab your barefoot baby by the hand.

  Elvis Presley

  Baby, Hands, Dancing

  Song: Do The Clam, Album: Girl Happy

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• I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

  Dr. Seuss

  Lucky, Jam, Ham

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• The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Ants, Form, Equal

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• When I am really angry, I clam up, go cold.

  Ram Kapoor

  Cold, Angry

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• There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.

  Mary Oliver

  Beach, Book, Years

  Source: balisha-neverenoughtime.blogspot.com

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [...] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.

  Joseph C. Lincoln

  Stars, Patriotic, Yankees

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.

  Benjamin Carson

  Real, School, Thinking

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• It is a dead heart.
  It is inside of me.
  It is a stranger
  yet once it was agreeable,
  opening and closing like a clam.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Stranger, Closing

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

  Matsuo Basho

  Autumn, Shells, Torn

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• My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.

  Todd English

  White, Sauce, Favorites Things

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• This living, this living, this living Was never a project of mine.

  Dorothy Parker

  Life, Catharsis, Projects

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Father, Book, Oysters

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams.  I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

  Mario Batali

  Dream, Thinking, Teach

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• You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over

  Ellen Hopkins

  Sweet, Hurt, Dad

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• I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?

  Irshad Manji

  Responsibility, Challenges, Islam

  "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.

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• Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference.

  Kirk Douglas

  Emotional, Differences, People

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