Oysters Quotes - Page 5

• The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.

  J. K. Rowling

  World, Can Do, I Can

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• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.

  Morgan Saylor

  Growing Up, Thinking, World

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• We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

  Plato

  Shells, Body, Bounds

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Contentment, Elements, May

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• I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat.

  Charles Dickens

  Couple, Men, Hands

  M. R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Hardy (2017). “Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales: Ghost Stories, Horror Tales & Legends: The Silver Hatchet, Wolverden Tower, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Box with the Iron Clamps, The Grave by the Handpost, The Ghost’s Touch…”, p.285, e-artnow

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• There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Use, Pearls, Aces

  Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Imaginary crimes”, Penguin Group USA

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• I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.

  Chris Evert

  Determination, Hard Work, World

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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, Cocktails, Shrimp

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• Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' - he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture - 'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and...and...

  Lauren Willig

  Loss, Hands, Mourning

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Liars, Lying, Eye

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• The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

  Arthur Miller

  Cracks, World, Mattresses

  'Death of a Salesman' (1949) act 1

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• Even though I found you on an ordinary day, it felt like I found a precious pearl in an oyster when I deep dived into the sea. Baby, you are really that precious to me.

  Fiona Apple

  Love, Good Morning, Baby

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• If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Daughter, Mother, Issues

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• Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

  Barbara Walters

  Used, Found, Clusters

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• Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.

  Frank Loesser

  Beautiful, Long, Perfect

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• Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I am wandering! Strange how the brain controls the brain! What was I saying, Watson?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ocean, Thinking, Brain

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1989). “Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories”, p.832, Wordsworth Editions

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• The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this.

  Tim Allen

  Successful, Phones, Years

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• Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

  Marcel Proust

  Knives, Parent, House

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• I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Thinking

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.

  Davy Crockett

  Writing, Hands, Feelings

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

  Richard Simmons

  Lying, Order, Temptation

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

  Michael Chabon

  Mother, Brother, Father

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• i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

  Don Marquis

  Sleep, Moon, Yesterday

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.272, Penguin

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• The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

  Janet Fitch

  Lost Ones, White, Pearls

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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