Quotes by Oysters I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable. Frank Fairfield oysters jobs moving Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl. Frank Loesser oysters beautiful long If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl. Fred Wilson oysters creativity needs 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 worry might Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon. Garry Shandling oysters performances I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph. Garrison Keillor oysters new-york writing The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside. George Hamilton oysters trying football Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself. Gilbert K. Chesterton oysters joy night The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. Gore Vidal sponges oysters real I live absolutely like an oyster. Gustave Flaubert oysters 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 taste matter He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Hector Hugh Munro oysters unhappy happiness Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. Hector Hugh Munro oysters buddhism beautiful An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive. Henry Ward Beecher oysters courage believe 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 resorts oysters violence The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be. Herman Melville oysters light food In such a world as ours the idle man is not so much a biped as a bivalve; and the wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country, is only a sort of human oyster bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worms' banquet. Horace Mann oysters men country A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas. Hugh Bonneville typical oysters christmas 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 knowing feelings The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh. Ian Gardner oysters attachment life «12345678»
