#oyster

The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#new-orleans #oysters #shutters #beauty

In the sea of my emotions, his presence is like a pearl in the oyster. Very hard to locate, yet very precious and still beautiful. ↗

— Mehek Bassi

#breakups #experience #hard #hurt #life

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. ↗