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the sea is made of blood
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.
A wood that smells of the sea.
Jellyfish," Riaz said, after considering the other inhabitants of the sea. "Seriously, there cannnot be jellyfish changelings."
Hawke turned to look over his shoulder. "What the hell have you been smoking?"
Riaz shruged, his mood undampened. "It was green and leafy.
You're a bum-rag covered in clart!
the coast, irregular
The sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water
Spanish chorizo is a spicy cured sausage that's especially tasty with clams.
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
Cletus's famous sausage is famous." Cletus's
There is an animal inside me,
clutching fast to my heart,
a huge crab.
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
You can have my jellyfish
I am not sellyfish
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.
On Sunday, something washed up on shore.
Stupid little fish
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems.
I'm sorry I'm not a jellyfish.
you curdled clot of whores piss
Astonishingly slimy and dangerous
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
The world is my lobster.
The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore
A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale.
I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.
Like the Devil, the Norway lobster is known by a variety of different names: cigala in Spain, langoustine in France, Dublin Bay Prawn in Ireland. And in Italy, as well as the U.K., scampi.
Oysters, clams, and cockles were cat's magic words, and like all good magic words they could take her almost anywhere.
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation ...
All is fish that comth to net.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
That would be the gentleman lobster,
For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!
Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water, minuscule crustaceans emerge; they can grow up to 2 inches long.
Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.
Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.
I live absolutely like an oyster.
Very Like a WhaleWhale-- Ogden Nash
The sea calls us home
Cormorant fishing:
How stirring,
How saddening
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
Jellyfish do not respond to reason, they usually don't respond to kindness, and they will always show up to ruin a fun party if possible.
An enormous fish poked his head out of the water and stared at them. "Who are you?" he demanded.
"Avon Snail, at your service," said Avon.
"Edward Ant," said Edward. "But I am not at your service.
There you go, wading in your clodhoppers through our private territory.
There is vast sea of all kind of creatures.
There are monsters in the sea.
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed,
A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.
My taste includes both snails and oysters.
This is a leviathan I am about to ship out to sea ...
My mother was an oyster, And I'm the pearl.
It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.
What is this?"
"Plankton, basically," Henry says. "A plant. A bio luminescent plankton called dinoflagellates."
Oh, Henry. He's so romantic.
As soon as I get home, all I want to eat is seafood.
The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
It's an alien."
"Sand crab," Leon said. "It won't hurt you."
"It sure is ugly."
"Ugly never hurt a thing."
I scoffed. "Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It's just that pretty hurts more."
"Amen.
Fish marreth the water, and flesh doth dress it
Whats up, Seaweed Brain?
On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.
The chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.
Seaweed Brain
Wise Girl
If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.
The world is your lobster!
Splendiferous. That's your word. It's yellow with six legs and it's crawling up your arm.
If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.
No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.
Cofishes-other fish in a group, coworkers, cohorts, etc. Shut up, it's a word.
sand-bar, sorrowful
Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.
When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea.
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
For the present you can just call me the Kingfish.
Earth's sweat, the sea.
Your interest is in the bloody loam but what I'm after is the finished product.
I like working with fish, so naturally I like seafood.
Get up seaweed brain
A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.
Imagine rude people as jellyfish
Sea sand is sea sand.
Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.
a creature of impulse.
Critter: I was fairly relieved when Sea took off on her own. She was wearing some two-sizes-too-small T-shirt, practically forcing my eyes to home in on "the girls," and all I could think was I'm going to turn into a pillar of salt.
You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband,"
"For a boiled mollusk, you wear black quite well, my wife,
You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.
It's all bloody lies about the sea. It's just all yuk with lobsters in it.
I pity the shrimp that matches wits with you Jeeves
The sea was like another member of the household, a recalcitrant child at times, a soothing aunt at others. She crooned them awake; she crooned them to sleep. Everywhere, there was the smell of salt.
An Englishman was reflecting on the different words that people use for fish. 'Isn't it strange,' he said, 'that the French say le poisson, the Spanish say el pescado, and the English call it fish - which is what it is.'
The sea is my business.
It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same meaning derived from the same Anglo-Saxon root.
The sea is the sweat of the earth.
A squalid phantasmagoria of breath
I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
Fish," the fool declared happily, waving a cod about like a scepter. "Under the sea, the fish eat us.
Sandworms ... you know I hate 'em!