Oysters And Pearls Quotes & Sayings

What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl. — Rumi

I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner. — Gilbert Gottfried

Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster. — Florynce Kennedy

I've often said that great things can happen to you and for you, but if it doesn't happen in you, then the way you view yourself won't change. — Maria Durso

Heterodogmatize (v.) To have an opinion different from the one generally held. Just because you are in proud possession of opinions that differ from those of the majority of the population is no reason to start patting yourself on the back. Usually it just means you are wrong. also — Ammon Shea

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter. — John Updike

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls. — Sheila Ballantyne

How could someone so rude, condescending, and assholish have this effect on me? Was assholish even a word? — Lyra Parish

When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of the site and the plan and section. — Stephen Kanner

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls. — Henning Mankell

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources; — John Wooden

While they are busy showing off, digging other people's graves, hanging themselves on a cross, running wild in the streets, cherries are quietly turning from green to red, oysters are suffering pearls, and children are catching rain in their mouths expecting the drops to be cold but they're not; they are warm and smell like pineapple before they get heavier and heavier, so heavy and fast they can't be caught one at a time. Poor swimmers head for shore while strong ones wait for lightning's silver veins. Bottle-green clouds sweep in, pushing the rain inland where palm trees pretend to be shocked by the wind. — Toni Morrison

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. — John Bunyan

Pearls rarely turn up in oysters served to you on a plate; you have to dive for them. — Thor Heyerdahl

Do you know how a pearl comes to be?"
"Oysters make them, from a bit of sand."
"Aiyah. From a bit of sand." He rolled the pearl between his fingers. "All pearls begin as something unpleasant that the oysters cannot expel from themselves, even though they may want to. So they embrace these things that will not leave them, shaping them and smoothing away the sharp edges, until over time, they make of these unwanted things great treasures. — C.L. Wilson

From rocks come gold.
From coal comes diamonds.
From oysters come pearls.
From caterpillars come butterflies.
From adversity come the great. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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. — Fred Wilson

I'm just glad that your life finally gets back on track. It takes wonderful people for God to give them hidayah-Maria — Diyar Harraz

The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head and he picks it up and buy victuals with it, the physical effect is good. But with respect to me the action is very wrong. — Samuel Johnson

Those who love much, do much and accomplish much, and whatever is done with love is done well ... Love is the best and noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be.
If only one keeps loving faithfully what is truly worth loving and does not squander one's love on trivial and insignificant and meaningless things then one will gradually obtain more light and grow stronger. — Vincent Van Gogh

There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world. — Phil Rizzuto

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

There's no one around to answer all my questions now that Ben's gone. It's a stark fact that continually reasserts itself each time I wonder what I'm supposed to do now. That brown robe he wore might as well have been made of pure mystery; he clothed himself in it and then left nothing else behind on the Death Star. I — John Jackson Miller

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny. — Chelsea Handler

Never tell all you know - not even to the person you know best. — Agatha Christie

It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters. — Pat Conroy

So many pearls to be had, if you were in the mood to open oysters. — Maggie Stiefvater

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl. — Ross Perot