Thin Walled Shell

Famous quotes containing the words thin, walled and/or shell:

    “sullen fun

    Savage as childhood’s thin harmonious tear:
    O fountain, bosom source undying-dead
    Replenish me the spring of love and fear”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “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.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)