Shells Quotes

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

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.

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

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.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ.

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

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.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.