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“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.”

People Ifs Achieve Office Motive Shops Shells Bombing Globalisation Blowing Up Oxfam

Author:J. G. Ballard

“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.”

Ifs Beautiful Aging Beach Shells Beautiful Beach

Book:SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA

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

Drink Shells Coconuts

Author:Danica McKellar

“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”

Men Car Aggressive Shells Urban Protective Automobile Old Car Driving Cars

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”

Ifs Heart Whole Hate Literature Felt White Race Hot Down And Rage Chests Adam Shells Whales Mortar

Author:Herman Melville

“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.”

Hands Artist Break Figures Stones Transformation Spells Shells Sculpture Marble Sculptors Sculpting Best Artist

Author:Michelangelo

“We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China... and it becomes this shell game.”

People Moving Games Thousand Rewards China Selling Making Money Shells Mortgage Dividing

Author:Michael Moore

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.”

World Mother Sky Wake Up Divides Waking Shells Entry Unimaginable

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

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

Men Persons Hard Focused Feminine Shells Stay Focused

Author:Zoe Saldana

“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”

Thousand Shells

Book:Character and Opinion in the United States

Source: Character and Opinion in the United States

“I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.”

Thinking Two Reality Moving Five Comedy Minutes Ten Legs Speed Shells Session Turtles

Author:Garry Shandling

“It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.”

Hard Kids Three Summer East Broke Hats Hotel Shells Truck Divorced Straws Circuits Straw Hats

Author:William Shatner

“There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.”

Mean Class Gun Shots Argument Labor Tired Insane Shells Contests Powder Cannons

Author:William Tecumseh Sherman

“There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?”

Ifs Men World Giving Soul Home Spirit Courses Race Rivers Void Shelter Shells Boulders Tortoises

Author:Wole Soyinka

“Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.”

People Government Dies Responsibility Land Duty Shots Presses Deceiving Shells Fever Hype Paramount Free Press

Author:Hugo Black

“When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Shells Bullets

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.”

May Happens Happened Easier Victim Disaster Shells

Author:James Surowiecki

“I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.”

Trying Proud Who You Are Who I Am Shy Layers Shells Be Proud Shyness

Author:Ricky Williams

“It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.”

Heart Book School Empty Library Checks Shells Librarian Misconception Empty Shell

Author:Jarrett J. Krosoczka

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy”

Heart Philosophy Seems Pain Spiritual Joy Spirituality Understanding Wonder Miracle Prophet Shells Wondrous Daily Miracles

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.”

Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel

“A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.”

Window Shells Jewels Tortoises

Author:J. K. Rowling

“We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.”

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.”

Dream Eye Sleep Secret Behinds Sea Streets Bones Bags Dreamer Salt Bob Ashes Shells Feathers Juice Wrecks Whales Snowflake Moonshine Saliva

Book:Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

Source: Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

“Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.”

Book Reading Grows Behinds Stage Development Evidence Ems Surround Shells Lobster Stages Of Development

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began”

World Long Real Hands Months Six Long Time Shoulders Bored Real World Shells Crash Six Months Heartless

Author:Steven Morrissey

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

Autumn Shells Torn Clams

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.”

Life Inspirational Matter Certain Poor Poverty Amount Deserve Dignity Damage Carrie Shells Deserving

Book:All Over but the Shoutin'

Source: All Over but the Shoutin'

“Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.”

Dream Good Boat Shells Follow Your Dreams Floats Sinking Chase Your Dreams Life Is Good

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”

Men World Stories Next Heaven Lines Secret Share Band Noses Old Man Shells Caps Crooked Stardust Linen

Author:Mitch Albom

“Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold.”

Gold Dawn Horizon Shells

Author:J. K. Rowling

“From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning. ... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful.”

“I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn't explain my need to myself, and that's why it was such a beautiful need, there's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.”

Stills Hurt Alive Romantic Dear Tiny Sensitive Cynicism Romantic Love Shells Crushed Cynic Been Hurt

Author:Jeff Bridges

“Without love, loyalty, desires, passion, courage, dignities, faith, beliefs and all the other ingredients that go into making the human soul something so elevated that only God knows its limits, we are only shells bobbing aimlessly in a calm sea of mediocrity. ...And if you can figure that out, please write and explain it to me because you're a better man than I am.”

“I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose I had. On some level, unless we're mad, I think most of us know the various voices of our own imaginations. And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”

Source: Duma Key: A Novel

“You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?”

Writing Looks Names Written Seeing Missing Bags Shells Hello Posters Peanuts Sidewalk Spelling

Author:Lynda Barry

“Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil”

Certain Creator Delicate Display Shells Toil Veils Thunder Earthquakes Trembling Spirals Yeats

Author:William Butler Yeats

“His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.”

Dream Reality Eye Five Minutes Filled Flesh His Eyes Shells Five Minutes

Author:Virginia Woolf

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”

World Want Believe Wells Doe Community Land Consequence Doctors Mark Wounds Invisible Damage Shells Penalties Doctor Who Ecological Make Believe Nature And Environment Layman Land Conservation

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.”

Born Destiny Taste Fortunate Shells Millionaire Collecting

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“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.”

Ifs Pieces Paper Incredibles Inches Shells Tissues Nobel Prize Nucleus Nuclear Physics Tissue Paper

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!”

Life Art Soul Lasts Past Heaven Sea Lows Seasons Leaving My Soul Thee Temples Length Shells Mansions Domes

Book:Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table

“There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.”

Long Light Air Sea Broken Long Time Red Glasses Wave Broke Sand Shells Shallow Blades Dazzling Glare Broken Glass

Author:Albert Camus

“On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat at the grand piano to accompany a lady dressed in a cloud of tulle who played the violin and a cousin who performed on a cello. I would crack between my teeth the candied shell of an artificial fruit, and a burst of light would illuminate my palate with a taste of blackcurrant or pineapple: all the colours, all the lights were mine, the gauzy scarves, the diamonds, the laces; I held the whole party in my mouth.”

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin would be like jade with light shining through it I would never have to come back up”

Light Would Be Eye Sea Skins Blue Green Shining Fishes Currents Flesh Tiny Thick Shells Merry Exotic Mermaid Underwater Fingernails Seaweed Jade Shining Through

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and may come home with a smooth rounded stone as small as a world and as big as alone. for whatever we loose (like a you or a me) it is always ourselves we find in the sea.”

Source: Hist Whist: And Other Poems for Children