It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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It started very peacefully and we just joined the back of a very long procession. Suddenly tear gas shells rained in.
Ian Chalmers
A lot of kids really come out of their shells.
Rhonda Allen
Shell's results were a bit below expectations. Oil's retreat yesterday is weighing on the industry as well.
Karim Bertoni
[When they are put up, they won't just be empty shells.] They will be supplied an entire house, lock, stock, and barrel, ... Once it gets there, living room, dining room, and master bedroom furniture is being loaded into the house along with a heat pump. And this is all being given to the folks once they get down there.
Jay Taylor
If that happens, that oyster will not come back ever unless you dump oyster shells.
David Heil
You see the shells coming in from opposition forces as well as the Taliban. The poor can only retreat, and not take care of the crops.
Ahmad Shah Massood
It is a deliberate campaign against the army. We are professional. We would not fire shells at a sensitive time like this. We have not fired artillery or mortars at them for four years now.
Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.
Ambrose Bierce
Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
Corey Hart
I have loved like a child collecting shells along the shore line, discarding one shell for another of seemingly more outward beauty with no knowledge of the pearls that were hidden within.
Robert Anthony
We only had about eight square miles of land. The Germans were up in the hills firing down on us. We spent four months under constant shell fire. One of those guns up there was on rails. Big! You could hear those shells coming. Of course, the ones you could hear were probably not going to hit you. It was the ones you couldn't hear.
Paul Stone
Bob has dived for shells all over the world and on each piece of jewelry it says where that shell is from.
Nancy Lewis
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Spencer
All the shells are cut out of the same sphere, ... and now all have a common denominator.
Michael Lynch
[Hospitals were being constructed out of the wreckage.] Four or five days ago, they were empty, hollow shells with nothing, ... When we went through, we saw large metropolitan hospitals functioning as multidisciplinary, tertiary-care facilities in convention centers.
Richard Carmona
There's so much uneasiness and so much uncertainty as it relates to holding positions that at any opportunity, people just gather themselves and get back into their shells and wait for the next move.
Marty Cunningham
I tell people to learn as much as you can about the shells you collect, like, which ones are in short supply or endangered. I try never to collect live shells.
Linda Rawson
You'll see some bullet shells on some of the trails around campus. But that's about it.
Alex Swartz
I didn't know what to think on the appeal. I was walking on egg shells, but I was realistic. I thought it was 50-50 and figured it was in the Lord's hands.
Akim Millington
Eggs have porous shells, so it's best to keep them in the carton they come in or in a covered container in your refrigerator - don't use the egg slots in the refrigerator, or they'll become stale quicker, Fresh shell eggs can last four to five weeks after the expiration date without real loss of quality as long as they're in their cartons in the refrigerator.
Anne Vanbeber
I think they need to invent edible peanut shells.
Gary Martin
We then decided that since we were making all the parts, why not make the shells and manufacture our own vintage suspension helmets.
Jim Parker
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.
Marita Bonner
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Weird thing is, nobody's really sure why a 55-gallon oil drum can be crafted into a musical instrument or why my early Shells have a distinctive sound.
Ellie Mannette
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