Quotes About Hard Shells

#1. Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Pete Seeger

#2. Were all these castle folk in their ornate finery no more than confused souls hiding inside costumes, as the hard shells of snails protected the helpless, naked things that lived within them?

Tad Williams

#3. She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.

Marita Bonner

#4. Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#5. When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled.

Max Barry

#6. When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity.

Reona Peterson Joly

#7. When apostasy comes, it is because the spirit of revelation departs from us. The wire is broken between us and the source of truth. We cannot understand, though truth be spoken, since we are not possessed of the spirit of truth. We misunderstand and misinterpret.

John Andreas Widtsoe

#8. Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

Jimmy Fallon

#9. I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.

Bill Murray

#10. The sand was hard-packed and solid and wet, speckled all over with cockle shells in colors and patterns of such profusion and variety that they must have given the first Dutchmen the idea to go out into the sea and bring back precious things from afar.

Neal Stephenson

#11. I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the hard candy shell that gives to the other, or one is the apparition, the ghost-image that invokes the other.

Alex Lemon

#12. For me, acting was something I fell into.

Georg Stanford Brown

#13. Until it only gets weirder when Gus walks in the room and says, The sperm donor returns. How goes it, maestro? How was the journey from bean town?

Kim Holden

#14. Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

Leon Kass

#15. Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

Andy Rooney

#17. If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it.

George W. Bush

#18. As an actor, you've got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.

Jessica Stroup

#19. It's our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth

Kloby

#20. The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

Igor Sikorsky

#21. May our hearts be filled with great love for one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. We cannot fight for love as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo.

William Shakespeare

#23. I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

Richard Curtis

#24. A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Socrates

#25. It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

Ron Clarke

#26. When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see.

Sarah Parcak