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.

John Bunyan

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

Ross Perot

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Rumi

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

Sallust

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

Stephen King

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

Richelle Mead

You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife?

Rick Riordan

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Vera Farmiga

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Robin Hobb

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

William Blake

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

Louise Brooks

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Kajol

I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

Mikhail Bulgakov

Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning strikes, as a Finnish knife strikes! She, by the way, insisted afterwards that it wasn’t so, that we had, of course, loved each other for a long, long time, without knowing each other, never having seen each other…

Patrick Ness

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

Naveen Andrews

I already had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. They wanted me to get a proper job, like any right-thinking parents would.

Kathy Banks

He is a parent and he is responding as a parent and that is how I'm taking his response.

Renzo Rosso

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Russell Crowe

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

Tullian Tchividjian

My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

Venus Williams

My parents always told us, you know, you have to get your education. You're not supposed to become a statistic.

Vera Farmiga

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

Valerie June

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

Robert Smith

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.