Quotes about oysters
oysters together poverty
Poverty and oysters always seem to go together. Charles Dickens
oysters said happens
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell. Edward Lear
oysters said conditions
I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.
oysters risk louisiana
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. Bobby Jindal
oysters found used
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms. Barbara Walters
oysters world mines
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. William Shakespeare
oysters world cracks
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress Arthur Miller
oysters people trouble
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead. Agatha Christie
oysters creative trying
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. Carol Ann Duffy
oysters may fool
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.
oysters performances
Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon. Garry Shandling
oysters weird-things
I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself. Katie Aselton
oysters years eggs
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at any moment, after the first year, to lay eggs where before he spent his sexual energies in being exceptionally masculine. M. F. K. Fisher
oysters exciting exciting-life
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.
oysters violence resorts
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary. Henry Miller
oysters shrimp matter
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. Jean-Paul Sartre
oysters contentment may
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
oysters typical
A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas. Hugh Bonneville
oysters matter taste
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable. Hannah Arendt
oysters towns cards
I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card. Jason Flemyng
oysters worry might
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience? Fred Rogers
oysters pearls disease
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. Kenneth Tynan
oysters knowing feelings
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs. Hubert Selby, Jr.
oysters sick littles
Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide. Louisa May Alcott
oysters toads pearls
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. John Bunyan
oysters bread vinegar
A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed! Lewis Carroll
oysters
I live absolutely like an oyster. Gustave Flaubert
oysters differences midnight
She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight. Juvenal
oysters months paychecks
Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it. P. J. O'Rourke
oysters world allergic
The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish. Paul Neilan
oysters ants bees
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster. Mark Twain
oysters sea mountain
Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea? Leonardo da Vinci
oysters world table-manners
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. Oscar Wilde