Pearl Oyster Sayings

#1. In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful.

Mehek Bassi

#2. Like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

Robin McKinley

#3. Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside.

Frances Sargent Osgood

#4. The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster!

Bhartrhari

#5. For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

John Banville

#6. On writers' workshops: It is the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

Stephen King

#7. I've always tried to face life like an oyster does--when given grit, give back a pearl. Ted Miller Brogden

Ted Miller Brogden

#8. Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.

Truth Devour

#9. The ocean hides the oyster.
The oyster hides a pearl.
Bright armor and heavy helmet
Hid China's bravest girl.

Charlie Chin

#10. If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

John Bunyan

#11. The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

Ian Gardner

#12. We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others' pain and loss.

Neil Gaiman

#13. He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.

Jack Kerouac

#14. He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.

Emily Bronte

#15. It was odd to see her stepping out of that gloomy place, like a pearl coming out of an oyster.

Sarah Waters

#16. Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth
as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.

Frank Loesser

#17. The pearl only weighs the oyster down.

Marty Rubin

#18. You're nothing but an intruder. A germ. A piece of sand agitating my oyster. But you're not a pearl; you're a tumor or a wart or a cyst.

Ainslie Hogarth

#19. Every now and then a perverse downdraft would make the smoke whirl and puff toward him and he breathed some of it in.
It built dreams in the same way that a small irritant may build a pearl in an oyster.

Stephen King

#20. My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Ross Perot

#21. You can make an oyster surrender its pearl," Clara says. "All you need is persistence and a sharp enough knife.

John Langan

#22. 4. Q: What did the oyster say to the crab when he took his pearl? A: Don't be so shellfish!

Wally Pleasant

#23. the tear of the oyster is a pearl.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. The sublime beauty was almost hidden withing the castle walls. She believed that the treasured things in life were often hard to find - a pearl in an oyster shell, a kind word in the heat of the moment.

F.C. Malby

#25. My mother was an oyster," he said with a wink. "And I'm the pearl.

Leigh Bardugo

#26. Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

Rumi

#27. A conclusion is simply the point at which you give up thinking. He gave up, and as he rose stiffly to his feet, found that a conclusion had indeed formed itself in his mind, much as a pearl forms inside an oyster.

Diana Gabaldon

#28. A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.

Stephan A. Hoeller

#29. If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

Fred Wilson

#30. The world is your oyster...YOU determine the value of the pearl!

Jolene Church

#31. We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.

James Lovegrove

#32. All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Federico Fellini

#33. My mother was an oyster, And I'm the pearl.

Leigh Bardugo

#34. In early cultures, it was thought pearls were born when a single raindrop fell from the heavens and became the heart of the oyster. For me, ye have become the pearl, the beat of me heart. The sapphires and emeralds signify me tartan and how I will always surround ye with love, Creigh.

Vonnie Davis

#35. Famous Quotes on: Honesty, Wisdom, Thomas Jefferson
Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster.

William Shakespeare

#36. In the United States, there one feels free ... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

Randall Jarrell

#37. Jun Do was thinking about all the popular definitions of love, that it was a pair of bare hands clasping an ember to keep it alive, that it was a pearl that shines forever, even in the belly of the eel that eats the oyster, that love was a bear that feeds you honey from its claws.

Adam Johnson

#38. What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl.

Rumi

#39. No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

C. Day Lewis