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.

Zora Neale Hurston

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

William Makepeace Thackeray

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

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.

Kenneth Tynan

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

P. J. O'Rourke

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.

Paul Neilan

The world is your oyster... ...too bad you're allergic to shellfish.

Leonardo da Vinci

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?

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Sam Jr

He is very athletic. The thing with Sean is that he has so much upside.

Willie Randolph

It could be someone else toward the end of the season who could be the swing guy.

Victoria Gonzales

We're pretty much in the driver's seat for second place now.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Matt Moore

He's going to be the man. He has everything to be a star quarterback. Sean is going to be a stud.

Richard Hough

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

Ryan Hall

I'm constantly searching for the truth amidst a sea of confusion and uncertainty.

Russell Brand

Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.

E. Hicks

We may never find it. It may be on the top of another mountain by now.

Richard Paul Evans

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

Umberto Eco

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

Rick Danko

I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.

Rich Mullins

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

Walter Benjamin

I would like to metamorphose into a mouse-mountain.

W. S. Merwin

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.

Rebecca Solnit

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

Sam Abell

There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that the combination of landscape and lifestyle is the most compelling I've seen on this earth. Small mountain ranges and open prairie, and different weather, different light, all within a 360-degree view.