Oyster Quotations

We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953, Hillary was equipped with a Rolex Oyster Perpetual.

When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.

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.

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.

LIFE IS AN OYSTER AND YOU ARE ITS PEARL.

If that happens, that oyster will not come back ever unless you dump oyster shells,

It doesn't mean the oyster couldn't become established; it means that there won't be a lot of adults to reproduce.

I think Marquette Park is one of our pearls in an oyster that we need to shine up.

The areas that are producing are so small consumers would be lucky to see a Florida oyster right now,

With cultivation, the New York oyster industry thought it had beaten nature. But the city still didn't take care of its water. London, where oysters once came from the Thames, has a similar story.

There is so much natural bloom (juvenile oyster stock) in the water, ... We try to optimize the culture methods.

Ellis Island lies in New York Harbor 1,300 feet from Jersey City, New Jersey, and one mile from the tip of Manhattan. At the time of the first European settlement, it was mostly mud, sand, and oyster shells, which nearly disappeared at high tide.

The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides

An oyster shell opened up after the 2002 Olympics.

This is certainly a low in the oyster industry in the state of Florida right now.

This is probably the worst time of the year to have depressed oyster production because as we move into the cooler months, demand for oysters increases, ... The holidays is the peak.

This is always a good time. Everybody enjoys an oyster feast.

The non-native oyster was eaten seven times as fast as our native oyster. That was true for all sizes.

Examining the oyster is an accessible way to take on the issue of urban development. Even though I'm from New England, I never wanted to eat cod that much. Oysters are much better.

'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde