Shells Quotes - Page 11

• All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.

  Eddie Murphy

  Inspiration, Voice, Creative

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• I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

  Edie Brickell

  Easter, Crazy, Eggs

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• Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Lying, Moving, Your Side

  Chris Bohjalian (2011). “The Night Strangers”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

  H. G. Wells

  Eggs, Nurse, People

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.12, Sparklesoup LLC

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• It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Funny, Kings, Marine

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• What strikes the oyster shell
  doesn't damage the pearl.

  Rumi

  Oysters, Pearls, Damage

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.

  Jack Spicer

  Loneliness, Writing, Heart

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• Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

  H. G. Wells

  Beach, Heart, Men

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• I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

  Ron Jaworski

  Sports, Art, Years

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• Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

  Bryan Brown

  Matter, Far Away, Tales

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• If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Compassion, Circles

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening of the shell so the soul may emerge.

  Sara Wiseman

  Over You, Soul, Body

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• It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

  Epictetus

  Men, Unlikely, Should

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book I, Chapter 20,

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• I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning.

  Amy Harmon

  Thinking, Color, Perfect

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• I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit.

  Demi Lovato

  Eggs, Free Spirit, Filters

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• The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Sky, Doe, Nests

  Mercedes Lackey (1988). “The Oathbound”, p.52, Penguin

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• Rich, 'the Old Man said dreamily, 'is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.

  Robert Ruark

  Gun, Men, Hunting

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• Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

  Bahya ibn Paquda

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Air, Circles, Water

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• Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.

  Jeroen van der Veer

  Oil, Demand, Easy

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• I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye.

  Daniel Powter

  Eye, Doors, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

  Morgan Freeman

  Actors, Working With Others, Grows

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.

  Allison McAtee

  Kindness, Mind, Looks

  "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  People, Broken, Eating Disorder

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.

  Alex Lemon

  Giving, Balance, Ghost

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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