1. black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell
1. "...that kernel of gaiety that never breaks."
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Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
2. "Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth."
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Marisha Pessl, Night Film
3. "The kernel of all jealousy is lack of love."
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Quote by C.G. Jung
4. "He’s talking to rocks now, Kernel says. A definite lunatic, Kirilli purrs."
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Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes
5. "Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't."
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Darren Shan, Wolf Island
6. "A kernel design had two main benefits. First, the kernel ensured reliability by allowing a user to keep other applications active or launch new ones even if one program accidentally halted. Second, the kernel made it possible for an operating system to display multiple personalities. Each operating-system personality called the kernel in order to issue commands to the computer."
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G. Pascal Zachary, Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
7. "The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul."
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Quote by Joseph Conrad
8. "I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it."
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Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
9. "sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody."
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Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
10. "Kernel grins. To the death, Master Grady? To the death, Master Fleck, I grin back. Then we both say together, But not ours!"
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Darren Shan, Hell's Heroes