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Quotes About Clam

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
~ Margaret Atwood
The clam of peace and prosperity was once more experienced in the provinces;
~ Edward Gibbon
but then I studied at Yale." "Yale! There is a great pizza place there—" "Frank Pepe!" Anna said. "Where they have that crazy—" "White clam pizza!" they said together.
~ Elizabeth Topp
Mais, au fond, il n'y a d'abord que le commandant du Paty de Clam, qui les mène tous, qui les hypnotise, car il s'occupe aussi de spiritisme, d'occultisme, il converse avec les esprits.
~ Émile Zola
There's no doubt that the Moon is more than a handy night light and a hair restorer for werewolves. It's responsible for the substantial amplitude of earthly ocean tides. These are of obvious influence if you're a geoduck, a type of clam that people dig up at low tide.
~ Seth Shostak
Hey, it could be worse," Hammond said of their efforts to protect the woodpecker. "It could be a butterfly." Butterflies were easy, I said. I would soon go to see a couple of clam species that the governor of Georgia had accused of endangering the lives of his state's children. Matteson laughed, "Woodpeckers are pretty, but mussels?" And so it goes.
~ Joe Roman
Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.
~ Margaret Atwood
There I am, in the Grade Six class picture, smiling broadly. Happy as a clam , is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hardshelled, firmly closed.
~ Margaret Atwood
Selene, waiting on Her attention, stared through the tall glass plates, tail lashing, ears still laid flat, and willed herself to clam. Fear-and-fight were not her friends. They were th animal, the instinct that made her a superlative warrior. But the threat had been left behind on the ground, and Selene was in the Tower, in Her presence. Safe.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In the presence of resistance, we clam up. In the presence of approval, we blossom into goddesses.
~ Marianne Williamson
it best to worry about the little things. Things that can be helped by being worried about. Such as the making of clam chowder, and giving you a coffee. The bigger stuff, well, you
~ Stephen Baxter
Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany.
~ Esi Edugyan
Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
~ Bradley Chicho
Deciding that he was essentially useless, I made him a large glass of sangre del tigre- "blood of the tiger"- a lethal Bloody Mary that I had picked up in Mexico City. Tomato juice, clam juice, raw egg, fresh horseradish, hot sauce, ground white and black pepper, salt, the juice from pickled jalapeños, orange zest, and a large slug of mezcal.
~ Stacey Ballis
My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.
~ Kate Christensen
I find it best to worry about the little things. Things that can be helped by being worried about. Such as the making of clam chowder, (..)coffee. The bigger stuff, well, you have to handle that as it faces you.
~ Terry Pratchett
Her expression shut faster than a poked clam. 'I'll just get a cardigan.' He might not be a hellraiser anymore but Devin valued his reputation. 'Haven't you got anything sexy?' 'Yes,' said Rachel, 'my mind.
~ Karina Bliss
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
~ Rumi
Well, ain't you the clam's cuticle!" said Mr. Ogden.
~ Ngaio Marsh
tangerine clam, and a professional desktop computer that suggested a Zen ice cube. Like bell-bottoms that turn up in the
~ Walter Isaacson
I tried to utter, but could not. The tongue had got all tangled up with the uvula, and the brain seemed paralyzed. I was feeling the same stunned feeling which, I imagine, Chichester Clam must have felt as the door of the potting shed slammed and he heard Boko starting to yodel without -- a nightmare sensation of being but a helpless pawn in the hands of Fate.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
33 percent agreeing with the statement that the world is controlled by a giant invisible telepathic clam named Ronaldo.
~ Dave Barry
Life is like a clam, when it opens, you gotta grab the gooey stuff.
~ Jimmy Fallon
It is this capacity that now matters most to our future as a species: the part of us that feels awe in the knowledge that a simple clam, Arctica islandica, can live for as long as four hundred years, that the gingko tree has remained essentially unchanged through million years of evolution, but also that some insects have adult lives so brief they are born without mouths to eat with.
~ Unknown