Shell Crab Quotes

#1. The best part of shooting 'House of Cards' in Baltimore is eating lots of soft-shell crab.

Robin Wright

#2. As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

Thom Yorke

#3. It wouldn't be me if I didn't get a little nasty.

Trey Songz

#4. A poem is a skeletal shape. When I say it to you, I am dropping the empty shell of a crab into your warm, green ocean...

Jeffrey L. Hollman

#5. Increasingly the individuals who want to live together are, or more precisely are becoming, the legislators of their own way of life, the judges of their own transgressions, the priests who absolve their own sins and the therapists who loosen the bonds of their own past.

Ulrich Beck Y Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim

#6. There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Anton Chekhov

#7. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Golda Meir

#9. Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

George Kennedy

#10. For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.

Christian Louboutin

#11. Whether in a white dinner jacket or in a trench coat and a snap-brim fedora, he became a new and timely symbol of the post-Pearl Harbor American: tough but compassionate, skeptical yet idealistic, betrayed yet ready to believe again, and above all, a potentially deadly opponent.

Ann M. Sperber

#12. Ocean acidification is often referred to as osteoporosis of the oceans because as acidity rises, shell building creatures such as lobster, oyster, crab, shrimp, and coral are unable to extract the calcium carbonate from the water that they need to build their shells and are thus unable to survive.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#13. I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.

Katherine Jenkins

#14. Throw a lucky man into water and he'll surface with a fish in his mouth.

Julian Tuwim

#15. {Y}ou make do with what you're given, and I've spent a good many years learning to write fine-sounding sentences so that I can hide behind them. It's the way of the hermit crab, with nothing to recommend it but the pretty shell it annexes for its own.

Norman Lock

#16. After he died, my mother was like a crab: she tucked everything inside and left only her shell.

Kathleen Glasgow

#17. Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

Victor Hugo

#18. Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.

Danny McBride

#19. Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.

Jonathan Dunne

#20. The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins.

Tom Douglas

#21. I am a hollow shell, the crab's died, there's nothing left inside. Don't they know that?

George R R Martin

#22. You trip and lance
Your finger at a crab. It strikes. You rub
It inch-meal to a bilge of shell. You dance
Child-crazy over tub and gunnel, grasping
Your pitchfork like a trident, poised to stab
The greasy eel-grass clasping and unclasping
The jellied iridescence of the crab.

Robert Lowell