Shell Quotes

Without sea-power Germany's position in the world resembled a mollusk without a shell

Snowboarding brought me out of my shell.

When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme. One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.

The turtle couldn't help us.

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun.

When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.

Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

It’s only the sea,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn’t go inside because it’s a labyrinth and you may never come out again.

A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real world Instead of a shell But before I began I was bored before I even began

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.

Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

You don't want to play in your shell.

This is one technique - going into my shell - that has helped me get over my disappointments.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

Shell and Exxon support export, but refiners like Valero could end up paying more for the crude oil.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.