What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.
No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.