#oyster

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#hollywood #oysters #pearl

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#car #getting #give #give me #go

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. ↗

— David Hume

#greater importance #importance #life #man #oyster

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. ↗

— Woody Allen

#dead #eat #i #oysters #sick

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals. ↗

— George Berkeley

#i #man #most #oyster #rather

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#floor #ocean #oyster #peaceful #rocked

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#first #gets #man #oyster #second

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster? ↗

— C. Day Lewis

#earth #expresses #good #however #just

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters. ↗

— Roger Moore

#called #does #excellent #favourite #favourite place