Thin Walled Shell

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

    “Why does the thin grey strand
    Floating up from the forgotten
    Cigarette between my fingers,
    Why does it trouble me?”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “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)