Quotes About Oyster

It seemed to him, the more he thought about it, a kind of marriage between stone and water, the oyster. Inside a stone, water thickens into an oyster, and then it pulses within its shell like the gray heart of a gray stone. He felt he was getting close to something he needed to understand, not about oysters, about something else....

In my chair by the hearth, I lifted my cup. "Sometimes," I told him, "you must be content with ignorance." He did not like that answer, yet that was the perversity of him: in a way he liked it best of all. I had seen how he could shuck truths from men like oyster shells, how he could pry into a breast with a glance and a well-timed word. So little of the world did not yield to his sounding. In the end, I think the fact that I did not was his favorite thing about me.

The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

After Killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper…

We have a pearl disposal problem down here, you see. After all, if you think about it, they're just oyster poop.