It's the old shell game.

Strength is an empty shell.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.

It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Subsidies are a shell game, not a net addition to national wealth.

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case.

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in.

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

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

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.

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

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

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

If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.

As soon as we get out of our urban shell, we're still at the mercy of nature as individuals.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

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