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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.
Hildegard of Bingen
2.
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.
Ernest Rutherford
3.
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
Rick Bragg
4.
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.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
5.
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.
J. G. Ballard
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Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.
Jimmy Buffett
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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.
Emile Hirsch
9.
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.
Lew Wallace
10.
I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
Danica McKellar
11.
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.
Jimmy Fallon
12.
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
Sappho
13.
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Harper
14.
The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.
Mercedes Lackey
15.
We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.
Taisen Deshimaru
16.
Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.
John Bell Hood
17.
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.
Huston Smith
18.
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
Sam Vaknin
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Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.
Bettie Page
20.
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.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
21.
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
D.T. Suzuki
22.
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
Andy Rooney
23.
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.
Sarah Dessen
24.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Zora Neale Hurston
25.
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.
Isaac Newton
26.
Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.
Saadi
27.
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.
Celia Thaxter
28.
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.
Maurice Ravel
29.
What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl.
Rumi
31.
Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ.
Leeteuk
32.
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
Gaston Bachelard
33.
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.
Stephen King
34.
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.
Edwin Campion Vaughan
35.
I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.
Delta Goodrem
36.
Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.
Thomas Sowell
37.
I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.
Frank Ocean
38.
I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.
Steven Wright
39.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan
40.
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.
Gautama Buddha
41.
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
Elliot Johnson
42.
...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.
Steve Martin
43.
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.
Haruki Murakami
44.
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.
James Stephens
45.
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.
Marita Bonner
46.
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.
Sathya Sai Baba
47.
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.
Steven Morrissey
48.
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.
Nikos Kazantzakis
49.
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
George Carlin