Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Marcel Proust

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Katie Aselton

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.

Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Lewis Carroll

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!

Juvenal

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

John Bunyan

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Louisa May Alcott

Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

Garry Shandling

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

Eric Bana

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

Bob Gunton

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Brandon Sanderson

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Al Yankovic

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

Georges St-Pierre

I'm not impressed by your performance.

Adam Lambert

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

David Cassidy

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.