Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Henry Ward Beecher

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles

It is very hard to shave an egg

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Jon Corzine

It's something any responsible financial planner would suggest, ... Don't put all of your eggs in one basket.

Egg roll! Homemade vegetable! But the people are friendly, and it's better than nothing.

Henry David Thoreau

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.

Lofa Tatupu

That's what our job is. We wanted that goose egg up there, but we held them to just field goals. It's up to us just to keep getting better every week.

Frankie Bones

Breakfast. Eggs over easy, bacon, fried potatoes, no grits.

It looks like kids will have to have their egg hunts indoors on Sunday.

Janet Evanovich

Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. "Not right now." "There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when." And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.

Moby

One of the main reasons I'm vegan is because I'm ethically lazy. My friends who eat meat or who eat eggs have to sometimes wrestle with the ethical consequences of their actions. By being vegan, I take the easy way out.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Murray Rothbard

Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Kathy Bates

The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.

Julian Baggini

Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.

J. K. Rowling

They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.' 'Shut up,' snapped Harry. The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club.

H. G. Wells

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

H. G. Wells

[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

George Herbert

It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]

Jennifer Aniston

My keep-match meals: I'm good to go together with kale salad. Actually, Justin [Theroux] makes an ideal one with a poached egg and quinoa. It's actually scrumptious.

Ian Fleming

People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

How strangely Nature has provided them with the means of securing their eggs and young from their arch-enemy Man.

Isaac Asimov

You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.

Kelley Armstrong

undying grattitude?" Simon looked at me. " Cool. Dosethat come with eternal servitude? if so, i like my eggs sunnyside up." i smiled," i'll remember that.

The main problem with eggs is the food around it.

James Patterson

Jeezum—humans were like eggshells.

Eric Ripert

I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.

Henry Rollins

I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.

Henry James

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

Jonathan Swift

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin.