For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.
When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.
Has every oyster a different taste?
A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
An oyster may be crossed in love.
For me, if there's anything that would represent me and my style of cooking, it would be a seafood platter. Maybe a perfectly shucked oyster with a bit of lemon and cocktail sauce or mignonette sauce.
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.
It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.
The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.
Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion. . . . Theres nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!
