I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.
Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. . . . And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.
If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.
You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman. . . I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.
For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.
Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.
Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.
The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.
Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.