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?

Christina Lee

I was just bawling. That's when I realized this guy was for real. His heart is so pure.

Jay Alford

I was looking to them as the guys that make the plays and run around and get to the ball. So that's what I'm trying to do this year.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

John Doherty

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

Sonny Lubick

Jake really helped himself. He will be a guy who is hard to keep out of the lineup next fall.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

Hines Ward

Ken has done a phenomenal job of distributing the ball. Every week, it's a different guy stepping up.

DeShaun Foster

Just like those two guys were different kinds of backs, we got the same thing here,'' Skipper says.

Scott Olsen

Just like my last start. You want to go out there and match what the other guy is doing.

Takeshi Kitano

I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.

Gavin Bryars

The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.

Mike Haley

While the gay life is often glorified in 'pride' festivals and through the media, we offer a distinctly different message -- one of hope and healing for those who don't share that sense of pride. I and thousands of others know firsthand that there is a way out of unwanted homosexuality.

Adele

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

Tom Hooper

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

Rico Love

I listen to all types of different music. I go to different festivals. I'm around music.

Michelle Monaghan

I really love the festival circuit.

Jean Reno

I see most of my movies at festivals.