D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster."
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Lobster
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Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love..."
Brooke Burke
Television Personality
"I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean."
Dean Young
Poet
"Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too."
Brooke Burke
Television Personality
"Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!"
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"I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone."
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"Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet."
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"Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib."
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"Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters."
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"Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"
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"I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years"
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"Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way."
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