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«If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.»
Author: Eleanor Clark | About: Life | Keywords: breezes, freshness, intimation, intimations, love life, oyster, piercing, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock, split, split second, weeds
«All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography»
Author: Federico Fellini (Film Director) | Keywords: autobiographical, oyster, oysters, pearl, The Pearl
«In the United States, there one feels free . . . Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.»
Author: Randall Jarrell | Keywords: in the United States, oyster, pearl, The Americans
«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.»
Author: Alistair Cooke | About: America and Americans, Feelings, Nations, People | Keywords: oyster, settler, The Settlers, travelers
«He was a bold man that first eat an oyster»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: oyster, oysters
«The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Etiquette | Keywords: Oscar Wilde, oyster, Wilde
«Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt (President) | About: Action | Keywords: intended, oyster, oysters, seize, seize on, seizing, to become
«From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.»
Author: Victor Hugo (Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Animals | Keywords: displays, eagle, food for thought, manifest, oyster, oysters, portrayal, portrayals, reflections, several, swine, The Eagle, The Tiger, tiger, visible
«Then the world's mine oyster.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: oyster, oysters
«Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: dwelling house, dwells, foul, miser, oyster, pearl
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