Quotes about oysters
oysters palate please
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. Rebecca West
oysters knives parent
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. Marcel Proust
oysters weird-things
I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself. Katie Aselton
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 may fool
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool. William Shakespeare
oysters risk louisiana
Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total. Bobby Jindal
oysters world mines
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
oysters creative trying
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. Carol Ann Duffy
oysters pearls roles-in-life
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. Ross Perot
oysters shells pearls
What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl. Rumi
oysters way died
I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died. Roy Blount, Jr.
oysters culture poor
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster. Sallust
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 taste world
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. Steve Scalise
oysters kitchen should
Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they? Michael Fassbender
oysters body shells
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. Plato
oysters firsts eating
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything. Nicolas Chamfort
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 violence resorts
The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary. Henry Miller
oysters contentment may
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
oysters shrimp matter
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods. Jean-Paul Sartre
oysters towns cards
I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card. Jason Flemyng
oysters typical
A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas. Hugh Bonneville
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 worry might
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience? Fred Rogers
oysters world i-can
The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like. J. K. Rowling
oysters knowing feelings
They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs. Hubert Selby, Jr.
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