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Shells Quotes

I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat Picture Quote #1

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide Picture Quote #1

Anger is like the waves of a troubled sea; when it is corrected with a soft reply, as with a little strand, it retires, and leaves nothing behind but froth and shells, no permanent mischief Picture Quote #1

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself likean injured fan Picture Quote #1

We could see the children’s toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn’t a game at all, only the grave of a game Picture Quote #1

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean Picture Quote #1

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The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device Picture Quote #1

People love buying into a lifestyle and an overall concept. So when they buy a shell-colored lip gloss, they can also buy shells for their house, as well as sunglasses and [items in] other categories [in that shade] to create one consistent image Picture Quote #1

When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they’re hard to find. They’re covered in sand. They’re difficult to see Picture Quote #1

The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning Picture Quote #1

Man, I’m just into Buddhism, and I’m at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it’s a shell. It’s like, they go from one shell to the next. And that’s what I am. I’m just a hermit crab changin’ shells Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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We could see the children’s toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn’t a game at all, only the grave of a game Picture Quote #1

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight Picture Quote #1

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet Picture Quote #1

After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Her cheek had the pale pearly pink Of sea shells, the world’s sweetest tint, as though She lived, one half might deem, on roses sopp’d In pearly dew Picture Quote #1

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon... Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few Picture Quote #1

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster Picture Quote #1

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells... Easy to crush Picture Quote #1

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But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue... Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, and it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there Picture Quote #1

When someone thinks, I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good and shells out their hard - earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled Picture Quote #1

Like the beach glass, the wood was more beautiful because of its journey, because of the things it had been through. Inside the perfect shells is dim, It's through the cracks, the light comes in Picture Quote #1

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore - a shore that wears on her alluring brows rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, that blushed a tell-tale Picture Quote #1

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are Picture Quote #1

It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that Picture Quote #1

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I found many treasures in the woods over the years: shotgun shells, empty Colt 45 bottles, old railroad spikes, orange and black beetles eating a dead mouse, pebbles that looked just like teeth, old stone walls and cellar holes, a rusted out frying pan, the skull of a cat. (Shells Quotes) Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide. (Shells Quotes) Anger is like the waves of a troubled sea; when it is corrected with a soft reply, as with a little strand, it retires, and leaves nothing behind but froth and shells, no permanent mischief (Shells Quotes) Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself likean injured fan. (Shells Quotes) We could see the children’s toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn’t a game at all, only the grave of a game. (Shells Quotes) A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. (Shells Quotes) The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. (Shells Quotes) People love buying into a lifestyle and an overall concept. So when they buy a shell-colored lip gloss, they can also buy shells for their house, as well as sunglasses and [items in] other categories [in that shade] to create one consistent image (Shells Quotes) When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they’re hard to find. They’re covered in sand. They’re difficult to see (Shells Quotes) The very act of representation has been so thoroughly challenged in recent years by postmodern theories that it is impossible not to see the flaws everywhere, in any practice of photography. Traditional genres in particular-journalism, documentary studies, and fine-art photography-have become shells, or forms emptied of meaning (Shells Quotes) Man, I’m just into Buddhism, and I’m at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it’s a shell. It’s like, they go from one shell to the next. And that’s what I am. I’m just a hermit crab changin’ shells. (Shells Quotes) 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 (Shells Quotes) We could see the children’s toys here and there, and we saw a game that the children had made themselves out of dirt, deer antlers and abalone shells, but the game was so strange that only children could tell what it was. Perhaps it wasn’t a game at all, only the grave of a game (Shells Quotes) He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight (Shells Quotes) Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet (Shells Quotes) After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and around, and there is nothing there. No flesh. No life. Whatever lived there is dried up and gone (Shells Quotes) 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 (Shells Quotes) 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 (Shells Quotes) Her cheek had the pale pearly pink Of sea shells, the world’s sweetest tint, as though She lived, one half might deem, on roses sopp’d In pearly dew (Shells Quotes) The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon... Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles (Shells Quotes) 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 (Shells Quotes) One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few (Shells Quotes) Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster (Shells Quotes) Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells... Easy to crush (Shells Quotes) But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue... Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, and it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there (Shells Quotes) When someone thinks, I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good and shells out their hard - earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled (Shells Quotes) Like the beach glass, the wood was more beautiful because of its journey, because of the things it had been through. Inside the perfect shells is dim, It's through the cracks, the light comes in (Shells Quotes) The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore - a shore that wears on her alluring brows rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, that blushed a tell-tale (Shells Quotes) I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are (Shells Quotes) It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that (Shells Quotes)

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