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  • If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

  • Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.

    L. P. Hartley (2015). “The Go-between”, p.104, Penguin UK
  • I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

    Oysters   Way   Died  
  • Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

    Oysters   Knives   Parent  
  • [The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

  • I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

    Witty   Food   Oysters  
    "Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts". Play by Woody Allen (p. 26), 1967.
  • It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

  • We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.

    Girl   Fall   Boys  
    James Lovegrove (2010). “The Age of Zeus”, p.144, Solaris
  • The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

    Home   Oysters   World  
    Song: Dilate Complete Album, Album: Dilate, 1996
  • I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

    World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)
  • The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And coral-insects build their radiate shells... Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The same their manners, and the same their minds.

    Running   Sex   Father  
  • They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them and that the world was not only their oyster it was also their linguine with clam sauce. Not only were all things possible, but all things were theirs.

  • It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

    Oysters   Shrimp   Matter  
    Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Being and Nothingness”, p.617, Open Road Media
  • I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.

    Beautiful   Fun   Humble  
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”
  • OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

    Food   Men   Oysters  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.177, University of Georgia Press
  • The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

    Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press
  • I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one of the first bureau chiefs I think ever at the New York Times. Hearing these stories of how hard it was for her, and yet knowing how easy it is for me right now is just remarkable.

    "Women Directors Speak at Sundance". Interview with Peter Belsito, blogs.indiewire.com. January 26, 2013.
  • He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

    Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"
  • The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.

  • We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.

    Oysters   Ants   Bees  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.169, Courier Corporation
  • She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.

    Party   Oysters   Letters  
  • i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

    Sleep   Moon   Oysters  
    Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.272, Penguin
  • Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!

    "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.
  • I live absolutely like an oyster.

    Oysters  
    Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.81, e-artnow
  • Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

    Oysters   World   Mines  
    'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 2, sc. 2, l. 2
  • When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an oyster bar, cracking clams for a living when he died. So, he never saw me complete a book or achieve anything of note. I would have liked to have shared this with him.

    Father   Book   Oysters  
    "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.
  • My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

  • An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

    Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.369
  • 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.

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

    Oysters   Guy   Edinburgh  
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