Shells Quotes

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells, and 13 rock groups have written songs about me. One song has these lyrics all the way through, `I love Bettie Page. I love Bettie Page. I love Bettie Page.` (LA Times 3-11-06)

LA`s crazy. When I was younger and watched The Beverly Hillbillies Or Beverly Hills 90210, I used to think it was so far from the `hood. We were just in Compton and saw the yellow tape out, the sheriffs pickin` up shells and looking for someone to arrest and take to jail. We get on the freeway for 10 or 15 minutes, and we`re in Beverly Hills, where we can sit in a Subway with no problems.

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father`s shore.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with `em, then we grow out of `em and leave `em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

I had no idea we`d have to clean shells off the trail.

We then decided that since we were making all the parts, why not make the shells and manufacture our own vintage suspension helmets,

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

There was plenty of opportunity, and the kids shot a lot of shells.

Bob has dived for shells all over the world and on each piece of jewelry it says where that shell is from,

(Hospitals were being constructed out of the wreckage.) Four or five days ago, they were empty, hollow shells with nothing, ... When we went through, we saw large metropolitan hospitals functioning as multidisciplinary, tertiary-care facilities in convention centers.