#shells

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#brings #child #home #hour #like

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#fact #had #in fact #life #off

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore. ↗

— Corey Hart

#beach #collected #father #i #never

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#beautiful #cannot #collect #few #more

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. ↗

— James Longstreet

#caught #crashed #fire #hail #like

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#always #coconut #come #drinks #i

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different. ↗

— Huston Smith

#essence #however #kernel #only #protective

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#could #feel #how #i #i feel

The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding antiaircraft shells. ↗

— Dorie Miller

#bursts #diving #exploding #filled #planes

But her favorite is the Houdini fantasy. Big Red disagrees with his biographers, who say that he was driven by his longing to shuck off this mortal coil. She knows that he was all the time just searching for a box that could hold him. ↗

— Karen Russell

#the-city-of-shells #home