When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells.
Tom Stoppard
ThinkFeelShellsOutThingsJust
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
Ken Thompson
LifeThreeShellsTwoOwnStarted
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.
Charles Lyell
SeaLongNowShellsSameWest
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus
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Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.
Janine Benyus
SciencePeopleLookingBetterShells
People always think the xx are, like, moody and all dressed in black. We do all dress in black, but we're actually quite fun people - and we've come out of our shells a lot since the first album.
Jamie xx
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Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.
CeeLo Green
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
Danica McKellar
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Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
PlantsBuildingThinkShellsPoison
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
James Longstreet
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During the post-Soviet anarchy and the rush for the spoils of war, Hekmatyar spent most of his time between 1992 and 1996 raining rockets and artillery shells on the people of Kabul, leaving the city a smoking tomb of as many as 50,000 corpses.
Terry Glavin
TimeWarPeopleCitySmokingShells
I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
Dan Shechtman
OceanPeopleWavesSayWillShells
Bermuda's beaches are justly famed for their pink sands, colored by the pulverized shells of single-celled organisms called foraminifera. When occupied by bikini-clad sunbathers, the beaches, with Victorian primness, appear to be blushing.
Jonathan Miles
PinkShellsBeachesVictorianJustly
Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
Huston Smith
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By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire was supplying more than 50 million shells a year.
Saul David
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Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
Corey Hart
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A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
Henry Grunwald
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In March 1915, at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the British fired more shells in a single 35-minute bombardment than they had during the whole Boer War.
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I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.
Joe Manchin
YouGoKnowThreeShellsShooting
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Spencer
BeautifulBeachShellsCannot
Room 40 knew a U-boat was heading south to Liverpool - knew the boat's history; knew that it was now somewhere in the North Atlantic under orders to sink troop transports and any other British vessel it encountered; and knew as well that the submarine was armed with enough shells and torpedoes to sink a dozen ships.
Erik Larson
HistoryBoatEnoughNowShellsRoom
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.
Edward Forbes
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You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal.
Steve Albini
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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
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