Shucked Oysters Quotes

#1. I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I sold vacuum cleaners. But there was always a voice saying, You should be doing something different. And it was usually my boss and I was being fired.

Ellen DeGeneres

#2. I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.

Frank Fairfield

#3. To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

Warren E. Burger

#4. Most folks are basically decent. If given the chance they will live and let live. But our world has been hijacked by the fear-driven rapacious.

Mark Landau

#5. If you want people to know how much you care, show them how much you remember. Learn their names and use them often. It's an important skill to develop.

Harvey MacKay

#6. A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#7. I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. They'd insert a probe into the patient's head to press the nodule and the patient's immediate response would be to shout out, "FUCK IT! WHY NOT?

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#9. And because his narrator was characterized above all by his anxiety regarding the disconnect between his internal experience and his social self-presentation,

Ben Lerner

#10. LEADERS Initiate Lead; pick up phone and make contact Spend time planning anticipate problems Invest time with people Fill the calendar by priorities FOLLOWERS React Listen; wait for phone to ring Spend time living day-to-day; react to problems Spend time with people Fill the calendar by requests

John C. Maxwell

#11. Genua had once controlled the river
mouth and taxed its traffic in a way that couldn't be called piracy
because it was done by the city government, and therefore sound economics
and perfectly all right

Terry Pratchett

#12. In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

Thomas A Kempis