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?

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.

W. S. Gilbert

If I can wheedle A knife or a needle, Why not a Silver Churn?

Saul Bellow

The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.

Sarah Dessen

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

Wes Borland

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

Robert Johnson

All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.

Morgan Freeman

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Mary J. Blige

I do consider myself part of black history.

Rush Limbaugh

They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.

Ralph Abernathy

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Sojourner Truth

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Jesse Jackson

The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.

Ethel Waters

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.