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“Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.”

House Left Parent Half Saws Painting Empty Tables Lays Corners Knives Shells Oysters

Author:Marcel Proust

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

Strikes Damage Shells Pearls Sufi Oysters Inspirational Sufi

Book:The Pocket Rumi

Source: The Pocket Rumi

“Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?”

Should Kitchen Oysters

Author:Michael Fassbender

“Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.”

Disease Hollywood Pearls Oysters

Author:Kenneth Tynan

“She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.”

Party Opinion Months Letters Regard Wit Admire Honour Assembly Oysters Lament

Author:Elizabeth Montagu

“The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.”

World Hard Luxury Oysters

Author:Paul Smith

“Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.”

Needs Wells Lifestyle Cards Tubes Oysters Cab Upkeep

Author:Agyness Deyn

“But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!”

Soul Eye Beautiful House Left Doors Streets Broken Shapes Winter Enormous Shells Covering Wrinkles Oysters Roughness

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.”

Humans Enjoy Mental Health Environmental Reputation Allies Improving Standing Out Supportive Exceptional Terrific Consumed Mushrooms Oysters Environmental Health

Author:Paul Stamets

“Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!”

Way Has Beens Important Numbers Support Cooks Mushrooms Oysters

Author:Paul Stamets

“The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.”

Knows World Home Better Off Oysters Better Off Alone

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.”

Ifs Knows World Way Feels Writing Song Morning Pieces Paper Lifestyle Get Up Piano Blank Preparing Oysters

Author:Lesley Gore

“I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.”

Thinking I Can Self Doubt Essentials Admire Ingredients Grit Oysters Self-doubt

Author:Richard Eyre

“I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.”

Feels Writing New York Triumph Rhyme Oysters

Author:Garrison Keillor

“The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.”

People Feels Has Beens Wanted Freedom Animal Prison Trials Guilty Zoos Oysters Caged Catchers

Author:Russell Hoban

“Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.”

Sometimes Lying Order Deals Taste Bread Temptation Oysters Fries French Fries Mayonnaise French Bread

Author:Richard Simmons

“Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.”

People Feels Trying Made School Used Turns Fun Boys Eating Coffee Disorder Feel Better Bats Eating Disorder Oysters Stop Trying Doughnut Binge Beignets

Author:Richard Simmons

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”

Art Art Is Autobiography Pearls Jewels Jewelry Oysters Famous Artist Jewellery Jewelry Boxes

Author:Federico Fellini

“Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.”

Source: The province of the heart

“The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!”

Sacrifice Beloved Necks Pearls Oysters

Author:Bhartrhari