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One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

Robert Benchley
shells self travel

What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.

Robert Breault
shells funny-life games

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Robert Louis Stevenson
shells destiny taste

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

Rosie O'Donnell
shells mean thinking
What strikes the oyster shell  by Rumi

What strikes the oyster shell

Rumi
shells oysters pearls

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

Saadi
shells body heart
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs... by Rumi

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

Rumi
shells my-friends
The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts t... by Sam Vaknin

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.

Sam Vaknin
shells narcissistic people
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: be... by Sappho

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Sappho
tortoises shells music

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they?

Sara Pennypacker
shells broken stories

Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening of the shell so the soul may emerge.

Sara Wiseman
shells over-you soul

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

Sarah McLachlan
shells low-self-esteem fighting

Nothing is taboo if you have an angle on it. That said, critiquing women's human shells isn't my thang. Though there's probably something funny or interesting to be said about those who do it, and what that comes from.

Sarah Silverman
shells angle interesting

The mind must become the servant of the intellect, not the slave of the senses. It must discriminate and detach itself from the body. Like the ripe tamarind fruit, which, becomes loose inside the shell, it must be unattached to this shell, this casement called body.

Sathya Sai Baba
shells body mind
She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking... by Sarah Dessen

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

Sarah Dessen
shells self talking

I don't want someone shoving his views down my throat, unless they're covered in a crunchy candy shell.

Stephen Colbert
shells views want

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
shells dabs oysters

...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.

Steve Martin
scarves shells men
Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bore... by Steven Morrissey

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Steven Morrissey
shells bored real

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

Steven Wright
shells sea beach
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