Cowrie Shell Quotes

#1. Chinese porcelain was popular, too. The word comes from the Italian for a cowrie shell; literally, porcellana was a 'little pig', and the connection seems grounded in the glossy shell's resemblance either to a pig's back or to a sow's glisteningly crinkled vagina.35

Henry Hitchings

#2. It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.

Frederick Lenz

#3. The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don't die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Feelings need to be expressed, Hope. They aren't always understood the way people like to assume.

Nora Roberts

#5. There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

Terence McKenna

#6. I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

Kerry Condon

#7. Hell is being trapped in a night-club with the'beautiful people'and forced to live in a'luxury penthouse flat'.

Paul Johnson

#8. Everything under control out there, Carter?"
"You could say that," Carter said from his position behind the hotel. "I just escorted a ninety-year-old woman to her car. She pinched my ass and dropped a quarter into my back pocket as a tip.

Kristin Miller

#9. I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill
it finds its way.

Jonathan Alter

#10. It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself.

Alice Walker

#11. Allowing yourself to become empathic to the point of being traumatized by another's experience is unnecessary and ineffective.

Deborah Sandella

#12. It was the afternoon of the day and the afternoon of his life, and his course was now westward down all the mountains into the sunset. [speaking about Ralph Waldo Emerson]

John Muir