Shells Quotes - Page 25

• In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

  Francis Quarles

  Fashion, Soul, Too Late

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.47

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• I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

  W. C. Fields

  Games, United States, Towns

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• I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, Crazy, School

  "Lady Gaga's most revealing interview yet" by Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

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• What gives these corporations like CONOCO, SHELL, EXXON, DIASHAWA, ITT, RIO TINTO ZINC, and the WORLD BANK a right which supercedes or is superior to my human right to live on my land, or that of my family, my community, my nation, our nations, and to us as women?

  Winona LaDuke

  Zinc, Land, Giving

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• ... laws governing pollution tend to move pollutants from one medium to another. So, for example, we scrub SO2 from power plants only to dispose toxic sludge on land. We "clean" water only to disperse toxic-laced solids on farmland or landfills. Pollution control becomes a kind of giant shell game by which we move pollutants between air, water, groundwater, and land.

  David W. Orr

  Moving, Air, Law

  David W. Orr (2011). “Hope Is an Imperative: The Essential David Orr”, p.113, Island Press

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• When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

  Harry S. Truman

  Sweet, Mistake, Feet

  Letter to Bess Wallace, en.wikiquote.org. September 8, 1918.

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• Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart

  Amor Towles

  Mean, Heart, Night

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin

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• I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Holiday, Thinking, Water

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In a nut shell, air travel is the worst part about touring.

  Eric Burdon

  Air, Nuts, Touring

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• People love buying into a lifestyle and an overall concept. So when they buy a shell-colored lip gloss, they can also buy shells for their house, as well as sunglasses and [items in] other categories [in that shade] to create one consistent image.

  Aerin Lauder

  People, House, Shade

  Source: aspenpeak-magazine.com

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• I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

  Sappho

  Music, Tortoises, Instruments

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teaching, People

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  J. G. Ballard

  People, Office, Oxfam

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• Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

  Hugo Black

  Responsibility, Government, Land

  "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 1873, supreme.justia.com. June 30, 1971.

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• Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

  Jeff Bridges

  Romantic, Hurt, Alive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Lying, Oil

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• For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

  Jim Carrey

  School, Kind, Reason

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• Thank you hard taco shells for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Journey, Long, Tacos

  "Late Night 'Thank You Notes' From Jimmy Fallon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Past, Eggs

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “The Complete Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

  Sebastian Junger

  Military, War, Cities

  Sebastian Junger (2001). “Fire”, p.178, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Bullying, Kids, Trying

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• I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Simple, Ice, Sauce

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• The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

  Michelangelo

  Artist, Hands, Sculpture

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• We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.

  Michael Moore

  Moving, Games, People

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• Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Girl, Book, Writing

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.159, A&C Black

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