All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt

He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
Jonathan Swift

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston

I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
Lesley Gore

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
Carol Ann Duffy

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
C. Day Lewis

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.
Alistair Cooke

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
Bradley Chicho

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me 'Can you give me a lift?' I said 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'
Tommy Cooper

So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it.'"
Tim Vine

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
David Hume

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!
Anatole France