#shell

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

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ↗

— Herman Melville

#been #burst #chest #down #felt

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions. ↗

— Michael Musto

#helped #inhibitions #me #other #out

The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure. ↗

— James Rainwater

#belief #fitted #great #maria #mayer

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#fishing #industry #louisiana #major #part

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do. ↗

— Goran Ivanisevic

#ever #going #himself #i #injured

To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.' ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#because #breathless #emotional #forehead #held