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Quotes About Shell

Somewhere it is being prepared.Somewhere deep in the heart of Germany the shell is being made.Some German girl is polishing it right now polishing it and cleaning it and fitting the charge into it. It glistens in the factory light and it has a number and the number is mine. I have a date with the shell. We shall meet soon.
~ Dalton Trumbo
the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.
~ Jodi Picoult
The reality is one thing; the name; with all is strange associations, is only an outward shell of such reality.
~ John Cowper Powys
This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.
~ Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
referred to the Ghetto, a Yiddish term, sitre akhre, for the dim world where demons dwell and zombies wear a husk or shell that has grown up around a spark of holiness, masking its light.
~ Diane Ackerman
She was like his favorite candy - hard on the outside but a soft surprise on the inside.
~ Jaci Burton
The spiral shell. Always another curve out of sight.
~ Madeline Miller
I have examined you long enough. I have read your heart, and written out your secrets! You are but a shell-the shell that holds a corrupted and sinful heart. He shall live; you shall die!
~ Unknown
walking along a lonely beach, seen a beautiful shell lying in the sand, but had passed it by; and now, on her return, there it was again, waiting for her to pick it up in her fingers.
~ Unknown
endurance. But prospectors and Indians get a kind of a weather shell that remains on the body until death.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Matt had told me that cold was just the absence of heat, but it didn't feel like that. It felt like a presence. It felt stealthy, like a thief. You had to wrap your clothes tight around you or it would steal your warmth, and when all your warmth was gone you'd just be a shell, empty and brittle as a dead beetle.
~ Mary Lawson
I do love it. But I want you two to have it. Today, you taught me- no, you taught all of us- an important lesson. It is a dark day in the deep sea when we cause innocent creatures to suffer. The professor said we can conquer our fears through knowledge. But you taught us that our fears can best be conquered through compassion. Even we scientists must never forget to have compassion for all living creatures. My compassion for the little creature that once lived in this shell made me very happy.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
In [Richard] Baxter's view, concern for outward possessions should sit lightly on the shoulders of his saints 'like a thin cloak which can be thrown off at any time.' But fate decreed that the cloak should become a shell as hard as steel.
~ Max Weber
But you never knew what went on inside someone else; how, over time, a thought could become an obsession, and a new shell could form and harden around it.
~ Meg Wolitzer
De quem fui onda, sou agora espuma, búzio sem eco, lembrança de viagem nenhuma.
~ Mia Couto
Maybe we can hold the windows and doors," Mars said doubtfully. The ruined building was little more than a shell, with no roof and gaping empty rectangles for windows. "But if they charge us Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "They're charging!" Hel shouted.
~ Michael Scott
Chapter 5-"Now THAT'S Leverage" discusses the idea of "software leverage," where reusing components results in greater impact. We see how the use of shell scripts achieves a high degree of leverage.
~ Unknown
Paleontology of conservatism and theology of morality. All this is a thing of the past, since the world inevitably goes into the shell of a black hole of selfishness.
~ Unknown
It's like she's encased in a shell, more so than other Psy. Everything's
~ Nalini Singh
Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
~ Oscar Wilde
And like unoccupied heart's home, You'll fill the fragile shell, With wind, with whispers of the foam, And fog, and rain as well…
~ Osip Mandelstam
But he froze before he had reached far enough, halted, certainly, by the same sexret doubt I had seen in others, the querulous look and fear that asked, Is there yet someone alive in that shell? Some living human being, watching, waiting to come back to life [...]. Might there yet be some ember that could burst suddenly into flame, escaping, falling away to earth like a maggot dropping from a carcass?
~ Unknown
Ero un guscio. Vuoto. Accostami all'orecchio e senti il rombo lontano di un oceano fantasma.
~ Peter Heller