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oysters grit pearls
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. Stephen King
oysters body shells
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. Plato
oysters ants bees
We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster. Mark Twain
oysters matter taste
No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable. Hannah Arendt
oysters toads pearls
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. John Bunyan
oysters people trouble
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead. Agatha Christie
grit later proved race scope suspected throat
He coughed when he was back in the tie-up stalls after the race, but we suspected that was just grit down his throat and a scope later proved that was the case, Paul Moroney
grit knew mental midst pleased season team toughest toughness training
We have been in the midst of the toughest training of the season and I knew we would be tired. I was very pleased with the mental toughness and the grit that the team showed today.
pearls sand grains-of-sand
From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. Confucius