Top 35 Carapace Quotes
#1. The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Marshall McLuhan
#2. A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his glove. The insect was hideous: black and bulbous, with barbed legs and a massive skull-like head. Its carapace gleamed like oil.
Christopher Paolini
#3. The Russian governors are terrified of ideas. If only they knew what our governors know - that in a massive egalitarian society no idea which runs counter to the prevailing superstitions can successfully penetrate the official carapace.
Gore Vidal
#4. Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace.
Cathy Kelly
#5. The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
Stevie Smith
#6. Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to protect us from further harm.
David Whyte
#7. To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else. Writing is not a job; it is a lifestyle, and it is a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows. You need self-confidence and an iron carapace.
Virginia Henley
#8. We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sebastian Horsley
#9. And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.
Marilynne Robinson
#10. The very first lead work that I made is called 'Land Sea and Air,' and is the enclosure of primal elements within that kind of carapace of lead.
Antony Gormley
#11. Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
Mason Cooley
#12. But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
Arthur Miller
#13. She had always liked this image of herself as too much trouble, as different, and she sometimes thought of it as a carapace that kept her safe.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#15. There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.
Michael Ondaatje
#16. Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'
Ray Bradbury
#17. When a desperate, hungry spirit appears and makes the guinea pigs squeal it is because he knows where to put the live wire of sex, because he knows that beneath the hard carapace of indifference there is concealed the ugly gash, the wound that never heals.
Henry Miller
#18. When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home.
Lauren Groff
#19. I'm not sure that I've ever been drawn to the academic life as such. Theology has been a matter of survival for me. If I have a carapace of academic presentability, it is thanks to the wonderful teachers I had.
James Alison
#20. Worse than that, however, was the CFO, a dapper-suited, neat-haired new age carapace containing an uninhibited misogynistic bogan, whose actual words to me, in concert with my boss in the same room were: 'To be successful you have to accept that weekends are for families.
Annabel Crabb
#21. The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#22. The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.
Aristotle.
#23. I grew up with a lot of brothers and male cousins, so I had to worm my way in to get heard. But that's sort of what excites me.
Liz Phair
#24. I wouldn't marry Giddon to save my life," Katsa said. "Not even to save yours."
"Well." Raffin's eyes were full of laughter. "I'd leave that part out.
Kristin Cashore
#25. He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart
C.S. Lewis
#26. I do not believe in God, yet I believe in Picasso.
Diego Rivera
#27. Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#28. My advice is that you wait. You can love without making love. It is a beautiful way of showing your feelings but it brings responsibility, great responsibility, and there is no rush.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#29. We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Tom Stoppard
#30. Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.
Seth Godin
#31. The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism,
Leo Strauss
#32. Managing your time really means managing yourself. If your time is out of control, it means you are out of control.
Douglas Merrill
#33. Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility ... Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.
Terry Tempest Williams
#34. There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
Andrew Wiles
#35. Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed
Esther M. Friesner
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