Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Miller

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

Carol Ann Duffy

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Edward Lear

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

Edward Lear

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

Bobby Jindal

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

Barbara Walters

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

William Shakespeare

Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.

Agatha Christie

a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an oyster all their lives seem positively to relish causing trouble when they themselves shall be comfortably dead.

Charles Dickens

Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.

David Vitter

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

David Rockefeller

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government...

David Hume

When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar objects, I say, are so inexplicable, and contain circumstances so repugnant and contradictory; with what assurance can we decide concerning the origin of worlds, or trace their history from eternity to eternity?

David Hume

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter.

David Dreman

History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

David Draiman

Spread the sickness, infect the world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Aeschylus

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

Jim Parks

My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift.

Bill Baxter

These mines were the original lottery. You dig, you get nothing. You dig, you get nothing. But the next shovel-full is going to be it.

Hillary Clinton

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

George Best

I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.

James Cook

I don't know how they could really make mines much safer than they are. What else can they really do.

Marshawn Lynch

But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.