We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun..

As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself..

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs..

I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty..

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?.

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt befor….

Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand..

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love..

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells..

It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the….

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the ….

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth..

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. I….

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity..

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up..

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling..

I grew up in a suburban situation and I was constantly looking for the central, the town. I grew up craving. "Where's the town? Where's the people?" ….

Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through..

Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’….

I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one is the h….

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might b….