Oyster
Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. The common European oyster (Ostrea edulis), and the American oyster (Ostrea Virginiana), are the most important species.
A name popularly given to the delicate morsel contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
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Oyster Quotations
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Theodore Roosevelt
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie
I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
Zora Neale Hurston
He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
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
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
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
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
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini
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
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
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
George Berkeley
Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.
Bradley Chicho
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
Randall Jarrell
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
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Oyster Translations
oyster in Dutch is oester
oyster in German is Auster {f}
oyster in Hungarian is osztriga
oyster in Italian is ostrica
oyster in Portuguese is ostra
oyster in Spanish is ostra
oyster in Swedish is ostron
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