World Being Your Oyster Quotes

#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. Laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death,

John Steinbeck

#3. Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security of the United States, the Bush administration has headed to war ...

Zack De La Rocha

#4. The value of your life is in all the unexceptional details.

Carol Mason

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

Noam Chomsky

#8. I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.

Stephen Covey

#9. I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither should you. In fact, that's the point. I believe that a young woman's decision to have sex, or not, shouldn't impact how she's seen as a moral actor.

Jessica Valenti

#10. I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it.

Ai Weiwei

#11. There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

Sam Abell