Oysterly Quotes & Sayings

I want to get one thing straight right from the start: I am not a natural-born jock. I am about as intrinsically athletic as an oyster, with the innate grace and sporty prowess of a brick - a very cute oyster and a very intelligent brick, if I do say so myself, but oysterly and bricklike nevertheless. — Hanne Blank

nothing motivated a person quite as much as the desire for vengeance. — Douglas Preston

Better than putting things in the attic you never use again. This way, you get to live the summer over for a minute or two here or there along the way through the winter, and when the bottles are empty the summer's gone for good and no regrets and no sentimental trash lying about for you to stumble over forty years from now. Clean, smokeless, efficient, that's dandelion wine.
(page 266 in the 1975 hardback) — Ray Bradbury

I've been lucky, because people have done such great versions of my songs, and I've worked with the best singers ever, and I'm lucky that way. — Diane Warren

All griefes with bread are lesse. — George Herbert

In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth. — Mason Cooley

My mum, in addition to trying to mutilate me with lobsters, always told me that shy kids get nothing. — Douglas Black

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea. — Rumi

of course you understand why he can't forgive you because you can't forgive yourself. You don't even believe God forgave you...if you did you'd shove off that shame. Jesus forgave you. Why can't you? Why can't Jack? — Sarah Sundin

I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something. — Orlando Bloom

Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer. — Bill Bryson

Christians always write to me threatening me with Hell. Strange how they think this vindicates them and their religion. Threats are the hallmark of a wicked creed. — Richard Carrier