“ The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
- 3.5K
“ In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. ”
- Max de Pree- Copy
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“ Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
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“ The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
- 388
“ Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases. ”
- Johnnie Cochran- Copy
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“ She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell. ”
- Marita Bonner- Copy
- 1.5K
“ An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
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“ My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings! ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
- 1.1K
“ It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal. ”
- J. F. C. Fuller- Copy
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“ So far there have been few problems. A broken winch was readily repaired by the crew, as was a batten problem in the mainsail. Sailing winds have been excellent and at one point we were flying a hull. ”
- Steve Fossett- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Books…are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. ”
- Dorothy L. Sayers- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell. ”
- Willmott- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. ”
- Ernest Rutheford- Copy
- 226
“ Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. ”
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper- Copy
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“ I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty — never to know the pearl within! ”
- Robert Anthony- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 60
“ It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. ”
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper- Copy
- 890
“ Deathlessness should be arrived at in a… haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog. ”
- Elwyn Brooks White- Copy
- 460
“ Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it. ”
- Sri Ramakrishna- Copy
- 1.8K
“ One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few. ”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. ”
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher- Copy
- 2.5K
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