Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.
Major Motoko Kusanagi: I mean, have you ever actually seen your brain?
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.
The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
You can’t eat coconut without breaking its shell; you can’t succeed without breaking the cycle of failure.
I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.
I became a real Shell Motor Oil expert, and I did this 25-minute film. It turned out really well and, as a result, they offered me more work and lots of commercials to direct.
Veruca Salt: I wanted to be the first to find a Golden Ticket, Daddy! Mr. Salt: I know, angel. We're doing the best we can. I've got every girl in the place to start hunting for you. Veruca Salt: All right, where is it? Why haven't they found it? Mr....
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
I guess we all have some of these - memories like artillery shells, fired at close range.
Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Only the balance of the scale, bedded love in the shells, teaches us to find the inner self.
No perfection can last forever. Time tears at it; wears it down until it's nothing, just an empty shell.
What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible...
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.
When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.
Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.
Had I told the sea What I felt for you, It would have left its shores, Its shells, Its fish, And followed me.
