Broken Shell Quotes

#1. I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name,
and I found one with a lifeguard's chair,
a broken shell, gulls watching egrets,
home an ocean away.

Michael Broder

#2. 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

#3. The little killer who's been living alone out here on the prairie is gone now, and all that's left is the broken shell of a girl who has no place to call home and no people to call family.

J.A. Huss

#4. Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?

Brian Perkins

#5. The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

Jennifer Worth

#6. He looked him right in the eyes and saw a man who was great and good and human, who had done extraordinary things and terrible things and been broken and reassembled as a shell, only then to do the bravest thing of all: He had kept on living, though there are easier paths to take.

Laini Taylor

#7. A true friend cares more about what is right than about pleasing you.

Gary Chapman

#8. Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.

Moby

#9. No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell.

Cassandra Giovanni

#10. Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed.

Neville Cardus

#11. Central Wyoming was like hell without the flames, an underworld thrust up onto the surface.

Walter Kirn

#12. There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

Ray Lewis

#13. There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand ... with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

Albert Camus

#14. Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those that a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

Gautama Buddha

#15. I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.

Gene Wolfe

#16. I became the burst shell of a mustard seed to dwell for an eye-blink amid a starburst galaxy of broken dreams.

David B. Lentz

#17. Whatever happened to me just now has gotten to me, broken past the fragile shell I've built. More than my memory is gone. My soul has wings that beat to a heart I don't understand and I see things, feel things that I know aren't from here, but that are so real.

Elizabeth Scott

#18. I was nothing but a failure. A fucked-up, broken shame.
I was nothing but this emptiness. A shell ruined by fame.
Don't be afraid to shatter, baby, if that will set you free.
I'll find you in the pieces and that will unbreak me.

Lexi Ryan

#19. Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

Janine Turner

#20. Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

Jessie Kahnweiler

#21. In high school, my two older brothers ran track. They'd come home sweaty and mud-covered, and I could tell they enjoyed it. So I started running - I ran a mile down the road and back again - and I haven't stopped since.

Mika Brzezinski

#22. It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

Dionne Warwick

#23. The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits.

David Limbaugh

#24. Some things were made to be felt

Ryan Adams

#25. Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Philip Carr-Gomm

#26. It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#27. My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.

Anne Lamott