Shells Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Animal, Trying, Different

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.

  Debra Granik

  People, Towns, Grew Up

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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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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• 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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• I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.

  Cat Deeley

  Bad Relationship, Self, Waiting

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• Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Love Life, Ego

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• My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go. Whether it's going out and auditioning for the play or trying out for the basketball team, you have to explore your boundaries and see where you really want to go and the only way you can do that is to break out of your shell.

  Zac Efron

  Basketball, Team, Play

  "EXCLUSIVE: Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens Sing Their Praises for High School Musical". Movieweb Interview, movieweb.com. May 22, 2006.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Animal, World, Earth

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• Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.

  Margo Kaufman

  Construction Workers, Blue, Medicine

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