#shell

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

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