Quotes About Conch Shell

#1. If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

Fred Beck

#2. Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

Tom Robbins

#3. In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

Max De Pree

#4. Like a garish conch shell, my cynicism protected me from disappointment, or so I believed, so I expected the worst and smirked when I found it.

Rachel Held Evans

#5. I took the conch shell and set it to my ear. Its susurrus sounded less like the sea than the labored breathing of a tiring runner. No doubt I heard what I was listening for.

Ross Macdonald

#6. The happiest people in the world are those who have a deep, gratitude-drenched relationship with Christ.

Randy Alcorn

#7. People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

Michael Schur

#8. I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

Kate Beckinsale

#9. Nobody tells us as little girls that we may fall in love and have moments of hating our beloved, or have ridiculous arguments at 2 AM over something that neither person understands.

SARK

#10. The Master stays behind; that is why she is ahead. She is detached from all things; that is why she is one with them. Because she has let go of herself, she is perfectly fulfilled.

Lao-Tzu

#11. Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Austin O'Malley

#12. Quote of the day: Quote of the day: We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916)

Henry James

#13. I was obsessed with 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

Sarah Steele

#14. The children of today are the builders of a brave, new world - a world without want.

Dada Vaswani

#15. As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

Maria Bamford

#16. A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say.

Jenny Offill

#17. He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

Mary Shelley

#18. The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Evelyn Waugh

#19. Some promises are better left unsaid

Ashlee Simpson