Shucking Oyster Quotes & Sayings

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people. — Charlie Brooker

We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly. — Bill Maher

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. — Tom Stoppard

Azdaha were no joke ... Not much is known about this dragon [the aforementioned Gandarw], except that he apparently had yellow heels. I wonder why that was such an important detail. I mean if I were describing Godzilla, the color of his heels wouldn't be the first thing I would mention. — Ilona Andrews

My message will be very clear; it is that I think we have to continue to read novels. Because I think that the novel is a very good means to question the current world without having an answer that is too schematic, too automatic. The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions. — Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. — Nick Cave

The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble. — Robert Krulwich

If one truly believes in freedom, how can one welcome the notion of slavery from either traditional masters or temperance-wielding masters disguised as servants? — Joshua Emmet