Quotes by Shells You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more. Charlie Higson shellsscrew-upsgames Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]. Charlie Munger dutchshellsroyal In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health. Chris Espinosa shellsuseease Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling. Christine Lavin shellsnew-yorkersfeelings Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland. Cormac McCarthy migrantsshellsmen It's the old shell game. Dan Rather shellsgamesreligion I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that. Danica McKellar shellscoconutsdrink Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it. David Kenyon Webster shellsclimbinghelping To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun. David Wong shellsgunstruggle For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all. Dawn French shellssizeage I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" You get into a very isolated shell. Debra Granik shellstownspeople I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while. Delta Goodrem hermitsshellslittles What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased it, "teetering bulbs of dread and dream" - that is, only in association with certain kinds of gooey lumps encased in hard protective shells mounted atop mobile pedestals that roam the world on pairs of slightly fuzzy, jointed stilts? Douglas Hofstadter shellspedestaldream The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. D.T. Suzuki shellshardestego The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living. Edward Forbes shellsdepthlooks They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton shellsrocksage The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes. Edwin Campion Vaughan shellswaterwar A man that simply loads himself down with possessions of which he has no actual need, when he dies slips out of them--as a little insect might slip out of some parasite shell into which it has ensconced itself--into the grave, and is forgotten. Edwin Hubbel Chapin shellsmenneeds You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it. Elizabeth Hand shellsifscharacter There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. Elliot Johnson shellsmemorial-dayfloating«12345678910»
