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Letter "O" » oysters
«All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography»
Author: Federico Fellini
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
autobiographical, oyster, oysters, pearl, The Pearl
«Their the waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet - p%tZ, Whitstable oysters, a sole, filet mignon, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.»
Author: S. J. Perelman
| Keywords:
eviscerate, eviscerated, filet, filet mignon, five pound, Hyderabad, oysters, proceeded, shred, shredded, sparkled, waiters
«Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.»
«Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.»
«Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
oysters
«Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
observing, oysters, Thick and Thin, thinnest, thin air
«He was a bold man that first eat an oyster»
«Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.»
«From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
displays, eagle, food for thought, manifest, oyster, oysters, portrayal, portrayals, reflections, several, swine, The Eagle, The Tiger, tiger, visible
«I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Food
| Keywords:
oysters, sick, wounded
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