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We've found 112 quotes for 'shell game' (0.194 seconds):


Movies:  Shell Game (1975)


"She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell." »Marita Bonner 
"It is easier to port a shell than a shell script." »Larry Wall 
"In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is." »Francis Quarles 
"Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a 'shell' if you will. But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of tinfoil and paper bags." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts 
"shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy shell to DOS..." »Anonymous 
"The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy." »Florence Shinn 
"At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine." »Joel Patrick Warneke 
"I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us." »Walt Whitman 
"Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery Phooey You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say 'Phooey,' too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed." »Quentin Crisp 
"Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk." »Harry Leon Wilson 
"My work is a game, a very serious game." »M. C. Escher 
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." »Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet 
"Ricky I don't know why we don't get a drink ... sittin inside this place. Bobby I promised Chloe we'd come here Ricky She doesn't even know where the hell she is, Bob. She'd have more fun if we were at Bodners. She could play the triva game like she likes it, or the little racing game thing she does. Bobby She's a little girl, little girl's don't like to go to bars. Ricky We had fun, we went to bars when we were kids ... met all the different people, right ...remember Slimmy" »Made 
"Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives." »Anonymous 
"The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell." »Willmott 
"I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!" »Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King 
"It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you." »Ernest Rutheford 
"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity." »Frances Watkins Harper 
"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity." »Frances Watkins Harper 
"I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton 
"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me." »Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph 
"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself 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 
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Ashley Montagu 
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell that ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." »Isaac Newton 
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself 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, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855) 
"I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself 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 
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain." »Kahlil Gibran 
"Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon." »Oscar Wilde 
"The game's not over until it's over." »Lawrence Peter Berra 
"If you don't like the game, get your kit off." »Aaron J. Munzer 
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