Coconut Shell Quotes

#1. Young women in Cameroon have their breasts "ironed" - beaten or massaged by a wooden pestle or a heated coconut shell - to make them less sexually tempting.

Steven D. Levitt

#2. an MIT AI PhD can generally walk alone into an investor meeting wearing a coconut-shell bra, perform a series of improvised birdcalls, and walk out with $1 million.

Gideon Lewis-Kraus

#3. Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

Thrity Umrigar

#4. Maybe the idea of the supposed tension between working and nonworking mothers had been put out in the world just to cause divisiveness.

Meg Wolitzer

#5. People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#6. God always gives you what you would have asked for if you knew everything that He knows.

Timothy J. Keller

#7. This perfect, eternal, Holy exchange
Is worship that satisfies both heaven and earth:

Amy Layne Litzelman

#8. In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

Nhat Hanh

#9. Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

Geoff Thompson

#10. I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox.

Gene Kelly

#11. An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.

Mark Twain

#12. My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

Vikas Swarup

#13. This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known to me than my own soul, may be after all only a sly beast who will end by devouring his master.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#14. Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.

Bruce Sterling

#15. Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.

Indu Muralidharan

#16. You can't eat coconut without breaking its shell; you can't succeed without breaking the cycle of failure.

Vinita Kinra

#17. Because I live in the real world where vampires burn in the sun.

L.J.Smith