Quotes by Oysters Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.' Isadora Duncan oysters wine mother The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like. J. K. Rowling oysters can-do world Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell. Jan Morris oysters cities hands The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart. Janet Fitch lost-ones oysters white I go into town every day on the tube. I've got an Oyster card. Jason Flemyng oysters towns cards 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 shrimp oysters matter New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable. Jim Himes oysters england blue I make a wicked clam chowdah, and linguine with clam sauce. Oysters I like to eat raw, and mussels in either a white wine sauce or in beer with paprika. Jim Himes oysters wine beer Give me oysters and beer, for dinner every day of the year, and I'll be fine. Jimmy Buffett oysters beer years For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. John Banville oysters real memories If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. John Bunyan toads shells oysters Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know. John Hodgman oysters august june Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question.../ Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' / Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly. John Green oysters love-you night He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. Jonathan Swift oysters food men It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's Mother Joyce Maynard oysters mother men ....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily. Jules Verne oysters men order She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight. Juvenal oysters differences food I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself. Katie Aselton oysters weird-things Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. Kenneth Tynan oysters hollywood pearls Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty." Khalil Gibran oysters pain beauty «12345678»