#shell

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ↗

— Hugo Black

#any #deceiving #die #distant #duty

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated. ↗

— Selma Blair

#bombshell #i #pressure

Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated. ↗

— Selma Blair

#being #bombshell #haven #i #lead

I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life. Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity. ↗

— Fred Durst

#bring #characters #definitely #feelings #harder

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. ↗

— Bill Copeland

#ease #like #own #shell #try

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

#attempting #chance #claim #company #developments

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#any #anything #because #broke #could

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#books #first #money #novels #off

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#also #bombs #equal #etc #men

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#before #critic #critics #i #i remember