Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Steve Scalise

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

Plato

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

Mark Twain

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.

Hannah Arendt

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.

John Bunyan

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

Agatha Christie

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.

Bon Scott

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

Charles Bukowski

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

Coolio

Everything I cook tastes better than yo' momma's nipples.

Clive Barker

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

Alphonse de Lamartine

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Andrew Davies

I suppose I have the tastes of someone who teaches at a university in the provinces.

Alice Waters

Let things taste of what they are.

Alice Waters

When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

Andy Warhol

Bad taste makes the day go by faster.

Ashton Eaton

To do the best that I possibly could in my world makes me pretty happy.

Azim Premji

The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Brian Tracy

There is nobody like him in the world. There is - and always will be - one Jim Rohn.

Bryant H. McGill

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

Bryant H. McGill

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Charles Colson

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

Jan Garbarek

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Jared Diamond

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.