When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: ‘Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.’
When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
Fresh, organic, cage-free eggs that slip right out of the shell are a versatile gift of the food world and can be transformed into a variety of tasty meals.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Japan is prepared to break the shell of mutual distrust with North Korea and get off to a new start.
Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.
I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don’t think I’m angry, though… Maybe my wife would disagree.
At Sunderland, all the girls knew each other. I wasn’t that extroverted person to go join in. I was a little bit in my shell. But as soon as I started kicking a football, it was fine.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana’s economy.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
So I don’t think I’m gonna pull my head into my shell just because a bunch of people start acting like idiots.
In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.
My parents thought if they put me in drama classes, I might come out of my shell. It worked, and I’ve acted ever since.
I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious.
I have a really hard time meeting people, so I wanted to take classes to get out of my social shell. Eventually, I opened up and realized, ‘Wow, I really enjoy this.’
The spiral in a snail’s shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it’s also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It’s the same ratio that you’ll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
Modeling really helps me find my confidence and break out of my shell.
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
Oftentimes, the only evidence left behind at the scene of a shooting are bullet shell casings.
When I started to do work outside of surfing, commercials where I needed to lead, I came out of my shell more, and I realised I wanted to create an environment that’s fun because, a lot of time on shoots, people are so stressed and running behind the clock in an intense way.
I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell of a person trying to find meaning, who is not completely in touch with reality.
I remember being chronically shy. I came out of my shell a bit when I went to university, but I’m still fairly shy in company.
My mother was an administrator at a nursing home, and my first job was working at a nursing home as an activities assistant. She wanted me to do it because it forces you out of your shell, and it’s about giving back. That’s something that I learned from my mother at a very young age.
In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.
The early versions of ‘Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf’ were great. It’s sort of interesting: as it progressed, it became worse and worse, but the early versions were really fantastic with Jimmy Demaret and Gene Sarazen. They were classics.
I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don’t know what I’m going to do.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
We reward people for making money off money, and moving money around and dividing up mortgages a thousand times over, selling it to China… and it becomes this shell game.
My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can’t remember. I’ve just been blessed ever since.
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.
I retired when I was 40. I started when I was 19. I never wanted to be a guy who was a shell of his former self and have people say, ‘He’s not as good as he used to be.’
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme. One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
