Quotes with shell

  • Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

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  • Oscar Wilde Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • E. B. White Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Ramakrishna Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
    Ramakrishna
    Hindu mystic and religious leader (1836 - 1886)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet 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
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Barney Ross I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • J. G. Ballard 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
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bailee Madison My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Buddha Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Cass Canfield Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Bobby Jindal The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Bill Copeland Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • Blake Schwarzenbach Turtle on its back in the desert sea / and you look like a cool drink / just slightly out of reach / Draw myself into the shell / waiting on a sign from God / or a nod from hell
    Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998) Sea Anemone
    Blake Schwarzenbach
    American musician (1967 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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