#shell

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #conservatism #filling #inside #means

So I don't think I'm gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#because #bunch #gonna #head #i

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#focused #hard #i #man #person

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. ↗

— George Santayana

#experience #into #like #meanings #shell

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman. ↗

— Lawrence Schiller

#astute #blond #bombshell #businesswoman #dumb

I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#every #five #full #head #his

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#better #between #cannon #capital #classes

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different. ↗

— Huston Smith

#essence #however #kernel #only #protective

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#could #feel #how #i #i feel

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#builds #children #does #easily #england