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“There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!”

Men World Sea Possibility This World Ocean Highest Bird Aspiration Shells Cages Bosoms Deathless Moaning Sea Shell

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.”

Ifs Should Humans Heart Inspiration Would Be Sea Listening Ocean Draws Infinite Shells Human Heart Hollow Sea Shell

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.”

Self Age Late Twenties Teens Shells Ageing

Book:The Sun in the Morning

Source: The Sun in the Morning

“Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans.”

Trying Humans Looks Different Found Animal Conscious Appearance Scales Authenticity Impulse Shells Spine

Book:Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

Source: Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

“I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell.”

People Situation Grew Grew Up Towns Isolated Shells Craving

Author:Debra Granik

“The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.”

Said Earth Force Stars Land Planets Arms Moon Shots Shells Coins Conquest Monopoly

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.”

Way May Littles Has Beens Stills Done Left Sin Goes On Consequence Destruction Mark Committed Flight Shells Forgiven Repent Undone Mortar

Book:Moses the Law-giver

Source: Moses the Law-giver

“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.”

People Littles Long Eye Age Born Sleep Cold Skins Circles Naked Old Age Noses Wet Shells Curves Old People Frogs Turtles Reptiles Tortoises Beaks Sagging Cold Eyes

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“As children we listened to the sound of the sea still echoing in the shell we picked up by the shore. That ancestral roar links us to the great sea which surges within us as well.”

Wells Children Stills Sound Sea Links Shore Shells

Book:The Archetypal Imagination

Source: The Archetypal Imagination

“I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.”

Thinking I Can Self Play Character Acting Conscious Shells Self Conscious

Author:Joan Cusack

“I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.”

Want Self Waiting Enjoy What You Want Spots Former Shells Bad Relationship Enjoy Yourself

Author:Cat Deeley

“Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.”

Mind Humans Body Spirit Human Beings Behinds Ego Empty And Love Buddhist Love Life Hiding Ecstasy Shells Innate Human Body Cosmology Empty Shell

Author:Frederick Lenz

“My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go. Whether it's going out and auditioning for the play or trying out for the basketball team, you have to explore your boundaries and see where you really want to go and the only way you can do that is to break out of your shell.”

Way Want Trying Play Can Do Break Team Advice Basketball Tests Boundaries Scare Teens Shells Going Out Break Out Basketball Team

Author:Zac Efron

“Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat.”

Heart Soul Sometimes Walking Beats Function Hot Significant Rational Your Soul Shells Veins Whispering Time Love Rational Thought Significant Other Sometimes Love

Author:Teresa Mummert

“[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.”

“When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.”

Years Done Moments Wanted Parent Class Trouble Sea Feet Association Shells Sailing Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Sea Shell Dinghies

Author:David Crosby

“Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.”

Left Behinds Scene Evidence Shooting Shells Bullets Left Behind

Author:Grace Meng

“I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Mistake Growing Up Growing Continuing Shells Living My Life My Mistakes Learn From My Mistakes Continuing To Learn

Author:Johnny Manziel

“If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.”

Ifs Want Writing Kind Used Criticism Shells Unkind

Author:Anne Beatts

“Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.”

Heart Hardest Shells

Book:The Locket

Source: The Locket

“Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.”

People Way Materials Inspired Toxic New Ways Shells Spiders Cheaper Silk

Author:Janine Benyus

“Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.”

Thinking Building Plant Block Poison Shells Organisms Co2 Building Blocks

Author:Janine Benyus

“I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.”

Thinking Gun Bags Pounds Shells Powder

Author:Barney Ross

“Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.”

Way Heart Sometimes Use Pain Wounds Cracks Shells Workout Stagnant

Author:Lauren Fleshman

“I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs I Can Cutting Wife Cold Angry My Wife Disagree Shells

Author:John Simm

“Right before when the iMac came out is when most people associate Apple started. That's when people remember Apple - that first iMac or that first laptop that was a clam shell. To me everything before that was what was interesting.”

People Firsts Remember Interesting Apples Shells Associates Laptops Clams Imac

Author:Joshua Michael Stern

“I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.”

People Made Kids Found Attention Stage Changed Mom Jokes My Mom Eight Monsters Nine Likes Shy Shells Sneakers

Author:Justin Timberlake

“Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan.”

Fans Blue Opening Ashes Shells Injured Crow Adjusting

Book:Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

Source: Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924

“As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.”

Love Pain Wounds Poison Shore Shells Darts

Book:Ovid

Source: Ovid

“In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even in defensive armor. In fact, nature began with producing animals encased in hard shells for defense against the ill of life. But smaller animals, without external armor, warm-blooded, sensitive, alert, have cleared those monsters off the face of the earth.”

World Hard Facts Earth Faces Animal Gone Violence Method Species Ill Warm Defense Monsters Sensitive Prize Shells World History Armor

Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.”

Way Self Left Natural Travel Planning Former Shells Packs Twisted Tubes Toothpaste Natural Phenomena

Book:20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Or, David Cooperfield

Source: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Or, David Cooperfield

“The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And coral-insects build their radiate shells... Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The same their manners, and the same their minds.”

Years Mind Kind Running Father Sex Lines Son Birth Passing Passings Manners Pregnant Shells Insects Reproduction Oysters Unchanging

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.”

Solitude Salt Shells Introspection

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.”

War Found Beauty Heard Duty Storm Shells Oath

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)

“The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning.”

“When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.”

People Looks Hate Stuff Differences Opinion Creating Sitting Down And Shells Sitting Down Fiasco Differences Of Opinion

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.”

Thinking Mean Moments Facts Happens Empty Shells Vacant

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.”

Long Has Beens Made Use Earth Language Mass Infinite Brilliant Poetic Continents Shells Fossils Tropes Limestone

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman--a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”

Children Facts Pain Empty Accounts Constant Notion Myth Persistence Shells Roof Nests Shattered Empty Nest

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.”

Play Lying Games Winning Loses Marriage Shells Sucker

Author:R. K. Milholland

“What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.”

Art Philosophy Philosophical Philosopher Cures Burned Shells Physicians Tedious Oysters Profundity Prescribing

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.”

Mind Littles Strong Attention Mistake Objects Addiction Curious Former Useless Etc Butterfly Shells Tribes Insects Futility Great Ones Frivolous Little Minds Strong Mind

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.”

Body Sea Strange Lovely Shells Worn Flood Sea Shell

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten.”

Men Needs Littles Might Dies Forgotten Possession Graves Slips Load Shells Insects Parasites

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.”

Body America Found Sea Europe Ireland Shells Fossils

Book:A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc

Source: A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc

“On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.”

World Hands Too Much Conditions Food Tired Shells Shameful Oysters Much Love

Book:Consider the Oyster

Source: Consider the Oyster

“It has nothing to do with age, it's not our languages, religion, gender, coulour of our skin; It's a soul within a well, that echoes deep beneath the ego's shell. True life can't ever start, until we offer up our heart.”

Wells Heart Soul Age Language Offers Ego Skins Gender Shells Echoes True Life

Author:Dawud Wharnsby Ali

“If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet. ... We have to [act] this year, not next year. Mother Nature does not do bailouts.”

Ifs Should Years Doe Today Earth Mother Next Millions Planets Cost Paid Surprise Atmosphere Global Warming Pollution Shells Our Planet Next Year Mother Nature Dump Bailouts

Author:Al Gore

“Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.”

Should Heart Play Would Be Difficult Behinds My Heart Useless Shells Hide And Seek

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam