Shell Quotations | Page 2

Shell is such a long turnaround story that BP looks a less risky bet.

Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies must be forced to face up to their wider responsibilities - on climate change, on the environment and on human rights.

Shell is getting near crisis point. Although the Asia crisis has bottomed out, the rest of the world has dropped off.

Shell is a nationwide company. But we choose the Shell Houston Open to put our footprints where we would like them to be.

Shell has saved money so it has a responsibility to help right the wrong of leaving individual holders with a large tax bill.

Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

Shell has had another poor performance with the drill bit.

Shellfish is better to buy live. In the U.S., because we eat oysters and clams raw, it is very important that they are alive before we prepare them. It's important to look for a closed shell. If a clam is alive, the shell will be closed. Never buy clams if the shell is open.

Shell employees will pay a terrible price for the use of Shell facilities in the attack of communities in the Niger delta.

At times we could hear the shell casings from the A-10s land on the buildings we were in,

That's a great way to put it. We kind of got in a shell the first week of our (league) season. We didn't do the little things. I told them I wanted them to learn from that.

The kids love it. With that kind of arc, you can actually see the shell as it is lobbed through the air by the mortar and follow it down until it impacts.

The consumer is still in there slugging away. There is no reason to think the consumer is going to pull back into some shell and go away.

I just saw a picture, and there was water up to the top of a Shell station sign. Our place is near there. There is so much water. I have lived there three or four years, and I am sure all my belongings are gone.

In fact, once I start rehabbing, few people will be able to find me. I will go into a shell and work like I've never worked before. Don't feel sorry for me.

I had enough of both of those men arguing and shouting each other down. Everyone else present had enough as well. But the next thing you know, Tony throws a red turtle shell at Jon and hit him hard in the head.

It has been suggested that you can trace the route of a modern army by looking at shell casings and used batteries.

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up.

I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up when I was 15 and dug in. The guitar helped me come out of my shell and kind of gave me an identity at school.

But you can still catch snook up the river. They're catching snook up the Peace River around Shell Creek and north of The Navigator.

But he washed me ashoreand he took my pearland left an empty shell of me.

Certainly this is saying that Shell is going to miss some deliveries after the explosion. It's a question of how long the delays will last, but 180,000 barrels per day is not that big.

I can be so creative, ... There's a shell I can work with. ... I can pop out a wall.

I'd say your were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair to carnival barkers. A Carney will at least tell you up front that he is running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what was purported to be the seventh-largest corporation in America.

I don't want to fly on the Delta planes. I want to fly Song. They have a different attitude. I'm more than willing to shell out 5, 6, 7 bucks to eat something other than the usual.

I don?t look at it as a benching. I was frustrated for (Mackey). I think he?s a better player than he was showing. He just wasn?t relaxed. I think he was just a little shell shocked looking up at the scoreboard.

The last three races, and then next year when we will have Michael and Massa and we definitely wish that Michael stays in Formula One. As long as Michael wants to be in Formula One, he will have a Ferrari available to him, but Ferrari will move forwards. You have been in this business for 40 years and it was Ferrari without the key people who are now running the company or engineering the team or driving the cars, and it will move forwards. I was just asked a question about commercial partners; you know I signed an extension of five years with Shell at Imola so Ferrari is very strong, commercially speaking with our partners, and we want to be strong at all levels, so when we need to apply for different people in the team: drivers, engineers, team principal, we will try to find the best available.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinions of her friends, the picture postcards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read