Top 27 Quotes About The Conch
#1. The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
William Golding
#2. 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
#3. The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning.
Carsten Jensen
#4. If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed to have mythic proportions.
L.L. Barkat
#5. If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued."
"If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
William Golding
#6. 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
#7. He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically An inquisitive ant was busy in one of the eye sockets but otherwise the thing was lifeless. Or was it?
William Golding
#8. -I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy
William Golding
#9. My girl, there are three kinds of people in the world: the outstanding, the mediocre, and the truly hopeless.
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
#11. More importantly, sir, you have my word that I would cherish your daughter and treat her well, bringing her back to Hagenheim for visits, whenever feasible, and that I am a God-fearing man whose priorities are God and family.
Melanie Dickerson
#13. What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief?
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
#14. I'm not built for a high-maintenance lover. I've always been the brat in a relationship. Now the tables have been turned on me, and I'm not handling it well." "Corey,
Darien Cox
#15. Hi mam I am Divya studying 2nd year English I am doing research about you so please tell me the relation of Anand in Conch series which compared to foreign culture
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#16. 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
#17. An angelfish priestess in anemone drag sat on a post and wished that she were a conch man.
Stepan Chapman
#18. And the heart sounds like a sour conch,
calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,
scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:
the sea reports sonorously
on its languid shadows, its green poppies.
Pablo Neruda
#19. I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
Daniel Handler
#20. Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
Tom Robbins
#21. Some people swear there's no beauty left in the world, no magic. Then how do you explain the entire world coming together on one night to celebrate the hope of a new year?
Claire Morgan
#22. Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich'aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background. But
Charles C. Mann
#23. Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.
John Hagee
#24. 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
#25. If I replaced my ears with conch shells, would you surf on the sound waves?
Jarod Kintz
#26. In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see
Leonard Nimoy
#27. Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Guru Nanak
