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Quotes About Crabs

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
~ Lawrence Durrell
The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of your guests with crab crackers or crab hammers, cocktail forks, and plenty of napkins.
~ Tom Douglas
Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think.
~ Jose Andres
Desván donde el polvo viejo congrega estatuas y musgos, cajas que guardan silencio de cangrejos devorados en el sitio donde el sueño tropezaba con su realidad.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.
~ Patti LaBelle
She reached down and picked a crab out of a bucket. As it came up it turned out that three more were hanging on to it. A crab necklace? giggled Juliet. Oh, that's crabs for you, said Verity, disentangling the ones who had hitched a ride. thick as planks, the lot of them. That's why you can keep them in a bucket wihtout a lid. Any that tries to get out gets pulled back. yes, as thick as planks.
~ Terry Pratchett
The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part.
~ Neri Oxman
Under the sea, the merman feast on starfish soup and all the serving men are crabs.
~ George R.R. Martin
New England oysters are better than Chesapeake. But Chesapeake blue crabs are unbeatable.
~ Jim Himes
The giant crabs, despite their horrifying appearance, became an essential source of food for the sailors.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Crabs, crabs, crabs. Crabs the size of beach donkeys.
~ Guy N Smith
Damn the crabs!' He thumped on the desk with his fist. Of all the rotten luck. They have to choose my loch.
~ Guy N. Smith
Within a few days these swamps are going to be crawling with spawning killer crabs. And there isn't a damned thing we can do about it!
~ Guy N. Smith
Then out of the dust and sand came the crabs, unharmed and infuriated, scuttling forward in search of revenge!
~ Guy N. Smith
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
~ H. L. Mencken
Please excuse the torn edges of this note. I am writing to you from inside the shack the Baudelaire orphans were forced to live in while at Prufrock Preparatory School, and I am afraid that some of the crabs tried to snatch my stationery away from me. On Sunday night, please purchase a ticket for seat 10-J at the Erratic Opera Company's performance of the opera Faute de Mieux. During Act Five, use a sharp knife to rip open the cushion of your seat. There you should find
~ Lemony Snicket
Walls and ceilings moved with ratcheting mechanical life like the offspring of chains and crabs.
~ China Mieville
There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.
~ Thomas Gibson
Crabs and some shrimp, in contrast, will groom injured areas.
~ Unknown
In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.
~ H. L. Mencken