Shells Quotes - Page 18

• Acapulco in the sunset seems like a balm; it enters the blood like a drug after one inhalation of the scent of flowers, one glimpse of the bay iridescent like silk, the sunset like the inside of a shell, so much like the flesh of Venus.

  Anais Nin

  Flower, Sunset, Blood

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• The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

  Anais Nin

  Character, America, Tough

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• There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched anything. There's a feeling of pleasure that many of us have in materials that have some presence before us, like clay and wood and copper.

  Jessica Stockholder

  Tree, Feelings, Clay

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

  Charlie Munger

  Dutch, Royal, Problem

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• LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets.

  Richard Thaler

  Russia, Class, Two

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• Philosophical studies are beset by one peril, a person easily brings himself to think that he thinks; and a smattering of science encourages conceit. He is above his companions. A hieroglyphic is a spell. The gnostic dogma is cuneiform writing to the million. Moreover, the vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself in a child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shells.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Children, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

  Fanny Fern

  Dog, Children, Believe

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.110, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• [On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Baby, Food, Cells

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• the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Baby, Food

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• Each moss,
  Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank
  Important in the plan of Him who fram'd
  This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost
  Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap
  Which Nature's self would rue.

  Benjamin Stillingfleet

  Self, Important, Rue

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• A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

  William Beveridge

  Ocean, Men, Crowds

  William Beveridge (1847). “Ecclesia Anglicana Ecclesia Catholica: Or, The Doctrine of the Church of England Consonant to Scripture, Reason, and Fathers : in a Discourse Upon the Thirty Nine Articles Agreed Upon in the Convocation Held at London MDLXII”, p.344

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• Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Beach, Book, Writing

  1956 In the Ladies Home Journal, Nov.

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• Within the oyster's shell uncouth
  The purest pearl may hide,
  Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
  Within that rough outside.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Heart, Oysters, May

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• The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.

  Jilly Cooper

  Upper Class, Feet, Good Man

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• When being a stunt double, my job has always a supportive role, which is interesting, really. Part of what I really like about it is making a situation where people can just come out of their shell and be super bad-ass. That's exciting!

  Zoe Bell

  Jobs, Bad Ass, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I was a big light heavyweight but I feel perfect at heavyweight. When I look back at some of my old fights, I was really just a shell of myself. Now I'm healthy and strong and ready to get to the top.

  Antonio Tarver

  Strong, Fighting, Light

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• I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

  Steven Wright

  Beach, Sea, World

  "I Have a Pony". Live album by Steven Wright, track 09, 1985.

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• Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Oysters, Water

  Christopher Morley (1919). “Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street”

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• In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

  Ken Thompson

  Two, Facts, Different

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• Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Migrants

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Stars, Moon, Land

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Done, Goes On, May

  William Mackergo Taylor (1879). “Moses the Law-giver”

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• Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Eye, Curves

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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