Shells Quotes
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Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.
John B. Hood -
Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.
Stephen Spender
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus -
If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell.
William Shakespeare -
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.
Ian Hislop -
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
Andy Rooney -
As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.
Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons -
Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.
Jimmy Buffett
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Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin -
When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
Tom Stoppard -
The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
Robin LaFevers -
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Spencer -
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
William Cowper -
This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time.
Ernst Junger
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My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.
Alexander McQueen -
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
Elliot Johnson -
Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.
Thomas Sowell -
We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6
Erich Maria Remarque -
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.
Ernest Rutherford -
People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.
Bel Kaufman
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I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.
Mia Wasikowska -
Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.
Ernest Jennings Ford -
Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.
Jason Powers -
Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
Huston Smith