Quotes of: Oyster Keyword

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Theodore Roosevelt

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.

Katie Aselton

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

George Berkeley

You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Oysters, such as Dabobs, Quilcenes, Westcotts, and Willapas, to name just a few, are often named after the place they are harvested.

Tom Douglas

Thanks to the abundance of shellfish in Puget Sound, Washington State is the largest oyster producer in the country.

Tom Douglas

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

C. Day Lewis

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

…I have fallen in love with a painting. Though that phrase doesn’t seem to suffice, not really—rather’s it that I have been drawn into the orbit of a painting, have allowed myself to be pulled into its sphere by casual attraction deepening to...

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy

Even a grain of sand united with an oyster can make a pearl.

Unrequited

New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.

Jim Himes

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

Roger Moore

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Nicolas Chamfort

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

Paul Merton

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

Richard Eyre

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster.

Katie Lowes

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Carol Ann Duffy

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

Alistair Cooke

Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.

Agyness Deyn

If you roll a pearl around your mouth it slowly reveals the dreams of oysters, memories of the sea, the taste of orgasm.

Girl Trade