Unshucked Quotes & Sayings

Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity. The protracted consideration of Keystone supposedly displayed these virtues. Now, however, it is clear that his mind has always been as closed as an unshucked oyster. — George Will

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else. — Napoleon Bonaparte

What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking. — Kenneth Branagh

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. — Alan Watts

Unless you become alert and aware in life, unless you change the quality of your living, you will not die consciously. And only a conscious death can bring you to a conscious birth; and then a far more conscious life opens its doors. — Rajneesh

Carly grabbed at Howard, who was in the driver's seat, while she was buckled in behind him. She flopped back in the seat of the car over and over, screaming and crying, throwing herself hard against the constraints of the safety belt. "What's wrong? What's going on?" they asked over and over. When they finally arrived at Barb's several minutes later and turned off the car, Carly calmed sufficiently to respond. "You need a seat belt," Carly observed. Sheepishly, Howard acknowledged he hadn't fastened his when leaving our house. — Arthur Fleischmann

He found several thick chocolate bars - probably Hershey's military-issue Ration D bars - divided into segments and packaged in wax-dipped containers to resist gas attack. Designed to be unpalatably bitter so soldiers would eat them only in dire circumstances, they were formulated to be highly caloric and melt-resistant. — Laura Hillenbrand

The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods. — Dakotsu Iida

Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers. — Simon Schama

You practice with wet balls all the time. — Ed Cunningham

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox. — Willie Stargell