Oyster Quotes - page 3

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him. (Michael Chabon)
It's so hard to understand why the world is your oyster but your future's a clam. View quote
Paul Weller (singer)
Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. View quote
Tom Robbins
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. View quote
Victor Hugo
It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster . . . View quote
Charles Dickens
Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? View quote
Jeremy Taylor
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house as your pearl in a foul oyster. View quote
William Shakespeare
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress. View quote
Arthur Miller
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. View quote
George Berkeley
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? View quote
Cecil Day Lewis
You will say, 'How can chance assemble in one place all the things necessary to produce an oak tree?' My answer is that it would be no miracle if the matter thus arranged had not formed an oak. But it would have been a very great miracle if, once the matter was thus arranged, an oak had not been formed. A few less of some shapes, and it would have been an elm, a poplar, a willow, an elder, heather or moss. A little more of some other shapes and it might have been a sensitive plant, an oyster in its shell, a worm, a fly, a frog, a sparrow, an ape or a man. (Cyrano de Bergerac)