When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you.
I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.
Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
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.
In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.
What we wear is the shell of who we are.
There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.
Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.
I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.