With a Nantucket Shell, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Gather a shell from the strewn beach / And listen at its lips: they sigh / The same desire and mystery, / The echo of the whole sea's speech", Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Sea Hints; The hollow sea-shell, which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent, and we hear / The faint, far murmur of the breaking flood. / We hear the sea. The Sea? It is the blood / In our own veins, impetuous and near", Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Sonnet. Sea-shell Murmurs'.
“People lose their senses at the beach 'cause the sun beats down too hard. They say things that just don't gel, you know. Well, you've heard this a lot: "Pick up a shell - oh, you can hear the ocean!" You could pick up a bicycle and hear the ocean - you're at the beach. Put the shell down, you'll hear the ocean twice as loud.”
Reported in Cader Books, That's Really Funny!: Over 1,000 More Great Jokes from Today's Hottest Comedians (2000), p. 164.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Elayne Boosler 1
American comedian 1952Related quotes
                                
                                    “They hear like ocean on a western beach
The surge and thunder of the Odyssey.”
                                
                                
                                
                                
                            
Sonnet The Odyssey (1879), in Introduction to his translation (with S. H. Butcher) of Homer's Odyssey.
                                        
                                        Roar, written by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, and Henry Walter 
Song lyrics, Prism (2013)
                                    
                                        
                                        Mañana 
Song lyrics, Son of a Son of a Sailor (1978)
                                    
2000s, 2001, I Can Hear You, the Rest of the World Hears You (September 2001)
“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”