The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon. . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.
I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells. . . Easy to crush.
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
E canchis amnia. Everything from shells.
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War I love it.
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.
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.
The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.
The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.
Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.