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)

    “I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
    —Isaac Newton (1642–1727)