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“Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.”

Thinking Men Persons Facts Next Buddhism Okay Shells Hermits Crabs Hermit Crabs

Author:Danny McBride

“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.”

Ifs Wells Answers Wise Asking Carrie Shells Asking Questions Snail

Book:Irish Fairy Tales

Source: Irish Fairy Tales

“Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.”

Men Shells Migrants

Book:The Road

Source: The Road

“In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.”

Two Different Facts Three Shells

Author:Ken Thompson

“Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.”

Men Soul Water Truth Is Prejudice Bottom Every Man Kitchen Shells Housewife Oysters Lurking Kettles Limes Hearsay Iridescent

Book:Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

Source: Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street

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

World Sea Beach Collections Shells Sea Shell

Author:Steven Wright

“I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.”

Knows Want Looks Important Sound Cooking Smell Eggs Shells Mystical Cracked Garlic

Author:Joel Salatin

“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.”

Ifs Path Approach Academic Conventional Shells Can Not Worms

Author:Ameen Rihani

“Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.”

Purpose Suffering Realizing Ego Cracks Shells Unnecessary True Freedom No Compassion Unnecessary Suffering

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“You're free because you don't have to expose yourself, and you can go wild, and let your id completely out of its box, and nobody will see you because you're operating through a surrogate. It's an opportunity to crack open your shell, to melt down yourself, and just let yourself go. It's a form of catharsis for me.”

Form Opportunity Boxes Cracks Shells Catharsis Surrogates

Author:Wayne White

“The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the human species. Killing a sociopath is equivalent to killing God. Neither exists in reality. They are empty shells of imagination, said Chiron”

Humans Said Reality Imagination Personality Empty Guilt Species Killing Innocence Biology Shells Sociopath Human Species Termination Empty Shell

Author:C. J. Anderson

“The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking a year over this and doing it on a donkey. Eventually found the road to the church of the Madonna of San Biagio, a foursquare temple sitting all alone in the plain. Sangallo's fantasy of the Doric order in honey-colored sandstone, with shell-niches, rosettes, oculi under heavy entablatures. Any one ignorant of geometry scarcely dare enter this shrine to number, measure, and weight. So clean and crisp I could eat it for breakfast.”

“Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.”

“I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain people. I was always that kid afraid of failing, so I just didn't do things. I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't know how to drive. I broke out of shell a bit, and I still am. I think it's more about trying to be the full person I imagine myself to be, regardless of what that means in terms of labels, shade from people, and all of that.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Mean Persons Stills Kids Certain Bits Term Know How Imagine Failing Fronts Singers Labels Broke Urges Shade Shells Bike

Author:Le1f

“I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle many times, I did a misty landscape of the mountain across the lake, and the mountain became the shape of the shingle - the mountain I saw out my window, the shingle on the table in my room. I did not notice that they were alike for a long time after they were painted.”

Long Rooms Knowing Saws Painting Shapes Mountain Long Time Happenings Window Tables Things Happen Landscape Lakes Shells Misty Shingles

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe

“England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War I love it.”

World Firsts War Young Written England War Of The Worlds World War I Shells Shocked First World War Scotsmen

Author:Ian Hislop

“All things of the sea belong to Venus; pearls and shells and alchemists' gold and kelp and the riggish smell of neap tides, the inshore green, and purple further out and the joy of distances and the roar of falling masonry, all these are hers, but she doesn't come out of the sea for all of us.”

Joy Fall Sea All Things Gold Green Distance Smell Tides Shells Pearls Purple Alchemist Venus Masonry

Book:John Cheever: Complete Novels

Source: John Cheever: Complete Novels

“Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.”

Thinking World Should Littles Hard Bits Strange Little Bit Bigger Shells Should I Another World

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.”

Giving Stories Problem Form Given Elements Tasks Essence Narrative Shells Obscure Penetrate

Author:Deborah Eisenberg

“The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.”

Shows Hands Artist Can Do Brain Break Stones Rough Spells Shells Marble Superfluous

Book:The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence

Source: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence

“He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.”

Land Stones Bones Flesh Eggs Shells Beer Drinking Ale Funny Beer Drinking Drinking Toast

Book:A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

“The shell game that we play ... is technically called 'renormalization'. But no matter how clever the word, it is still what I would call a dippy process! Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent. It's surprising that the theory still hasn't been proved self-consistent one way or the other by now; I suspect that renormalization is not mathematically legitimate.”