#shell

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#capacity #educational #himself #his #less

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#closer #even #foot #gets #great

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#ever #everything #famous #got #i

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell. ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#doctors #eggs #into #nurses #people

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#beautiful #cannot #collect #few #more

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. ↗

— James Longstreet

#caught #crashed #fire #hail #like

It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent. ↗

— James Marsters

#bit #bomb #ghost #good #just

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#head #heart #human #human race #i

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#always #coconut #come #drinks #i

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#become #car #man #protective #shell