Best Shells Quotes

A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying. And a man without memories is just a shell.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

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

After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach… Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone.

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.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

I stayed there, curled up into the warmth of your body, under the blankets, like something soft in a shell. Your arms were firm as rock around me.

There’s part of me that’s grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don’t have a very hard shell.

Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell’s grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.

I’m a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don’t take things personally.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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.

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.

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

The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.

It’s the old shell game.

Sometimes the way through someone’s tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

The shell is America’s most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

Gather a shell from the strewn beach
And listen at its lips: they sigh
The same desire and mystery,
The echo of the whole sea’s speech.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

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.

Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

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

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like

an
injured fan.

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i’ th’ shell.