Quotes About The World Being Your Oyster

#1. Charlotte sighed inwardly. She knew her mother was serious when she started referring to shellfish. What did that mean, anyway? What's so great about the world being your oyster? Does that mean it's really hard to open, and when you do, you have something slimy and gross on the inside?

Anne Ursu

#2. One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

Frederick Lenz

#3. I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Lars Von Trier

#4. A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

I.L. Peretz

#5. Instead, I argue and roll my eyes and act indifferent. And when I touch his arm, I shove it. Because that's what friends do.

Stephanie Perkins

#6. Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

T. S. Eliot

#7. Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

Pema Chodron

#8. Risk is the stuff that sucks the predictability right out of the very things that we desperately wish were predictable.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Ayn Rand

#10. Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

W.P. Kinsella

#11. Dying is like a ship that sails away for another destination.

Courtney Cole

#12. Remember that you're far back in the procession; remember that a whole army corps has laid siege to her, that she's been laid waste, plundered and pillaged.

Henry Miller

#13. Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Aristotle.

#14. 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

#15. Anything that offers hope has the potential to heal.

Bernie Siegel

#16. The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

Jerry Hall

#17. I'm going to photograph every single person to enter and leave this tattoo parlour."
Finbar rolled his eyes. "And they'll hate that, because people who get dragons drawn on their backs are normally so shy about other people noticing them.

Derek Landy

#18. A study by the University of Zurich demonstrates a link between attractiveness and endurance performance, showing that successful Tour de France cyclists are judged as more attractive.

Anonymous