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

- Andrew Carnegie

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

Well, I suppose I've never really had a lifestyle that needs upkeep. I don't get cabs; I'm on the Tube with my Oyster card.

- Agyness Deyn

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

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

- David Hume

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

- Federico Fellini

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

- George Berkeley

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

- Jonathan Swift

In my way of thinking, the world was my oyster, and there were thousands of products that could be developed.

- Jon Huntsman, Sr.

I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-twenties and the world was your oyster.

- Katie Lowes

You need to feel comfortable. When you're comfortable, you feel confident. And when you're confident, the world is your oyster. Most important, you gotta feel what you wear.

- Priyanka Chopra

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

- Richard Eyre

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

- Randall Jarrell

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster.

- Steve Scalise

It's important that your shucked oyster is clean and pristine.

- Tom Douglas

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

- Zora Neale Hurston