Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

William Shakespeare

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.

Edward Lear

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

Edward Lear

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

Bobby Jindal

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.

Barbara Walters

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

William Shakespeare

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Arthur Miller

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

Carol Ann Duffy

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.

Alan Watts

Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.

Alan Watts

The world is a marvelous system of wiggles.

Alan Watts

Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless.

Alan Price

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Alan Moore

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...

Alan Moore

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

Alan Moore

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

Alan Jackson

Where were you when the world stopped turning on that September day?

Alan Bean

I have the nicest life in the world.

Rahul Dravid

There are some cracks on it but otherwise it looks a good track.

C. S. Lewis

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

Justin Glover

When everybody thinks about a sinkhole, people think of a home crashing into a hole. That's not what we're finding. We're finding it's cracks in driveways, cracks in the walls, settling on the roof and those are being paid as sinkhole claims.

William Shakespeare

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both.

Alexa Vega

People are expecting me to still be fourteen years old. It cracks me up, especially when people see me walk by with my husband. They're like, 'What? You're married? You're not old enough to be married.' Thank you. I'm glad that you think that.

Carl Griffith

They're still not here. The state makes the request, works hard on the request. It falls in the cracks of the federal government.

Emily White

They are so smooth ... no cracks ... no lopsidedness. I love them. It was worth the wait.

Tariq Khan

There were cracks everywhere, ... Some could be brushed away as cosmetic, but there were also cracks in beams. There were leaks everywhere and weight-bearing beams were wet.

Pete Wentz

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.