Shells Quotes - Page 17

• I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.

  Kingsley Amis

  Real, Men, Drunk

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• Right before when the iMac came out is when most people associate Apple started. That's when people remember Apple - that first iMac or that first laptop that was a clam shell. To me everything before that was what was interesting.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Apples, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

  John Simm

  Cutting, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

  Max Barry

  Book, Thinking, Want

  "Now for an Elephant Stamp". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. October 08, 2005.

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• Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Workout, Pain, Heart

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• The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

  Richard Rohr

  Compassion, Two, Great Love

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• You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, Blue, Play

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.

  Hannah Flagg Gould

  Sports, Ocean, Hands

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• All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

  Howard Jacobson

  Use, Praise, Should

  Interview in the Daily Telegraph, April 2003.

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• It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so from the one Lord is produced the whole of creation, animate and inanimate, spiritual and material.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Tree, Parent

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.

  Matsuo Basho

  Morning, Night, Clouds

  "Anthology of Japanese literature". Book by Donald Keene, 1955.

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• As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
  the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
  much poison.

  Ovid

  Love, Pain, Poison

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.

  Stephen Spender

  Stars, Sky, Space

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.189, Faber & Faber

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• Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
  adjusting the ash heaps;
  opening and shutting itself like
  
  an
  injured fan.

  Marianne Moore

  Blue, Crow, Fans

  Marianne Moore, Robin G. Schulze (2002). “Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924”, p.234, Univ of California Press

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• If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Creation, Let Me, Dies

  "Elizabeth Costello". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2003.

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• I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

  Aristophanes

  Kissing, Eggs, Faces

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, But sour in taste, false as the putrid core: Thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; She makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: She boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; Performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: Her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.

  Francis Quarles

  Glasses, Light, Sight

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.23

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• The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Wings, Wish

  1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Search'.

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• There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.

  Conor Oberst

  Book, Two, Stories

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• I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

  Joan Cusack

  Character, Thinking, Self

  "Celebrity Q+A: Joan Cusack". Interview with Patty A. Martinez, www.familycircle.com.

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• The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

  Freya Stark

  Blank Mind, Knowing, Atmosphere

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.11, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Inspiration, Heart

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• within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

  M.M. Kaye

  Self, Age, Twenties

  M. M. Kaye (2015). “The Sun in the Morning”, p.19, St. Martin's Griffin

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• As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Obscurity, Pearls, Fame

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.55

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