Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster.
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.
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.
So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster
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.
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?
What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.
Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.
I live absolutely like an oyster.
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
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