Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nora Roberts

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

Matt Taibbi

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Maximilien Robespierre

Omelets are not made without breaking eggs.

Mary Tyler Moore

There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg

Peter Drucker

Ideas are like frog eggs: you've got to lay a thousand to hatch one.

Maureen Johnson

Money is for doing things, my love. Don't sit on it like a hen sits on an egg. It doesn't hatch. I should know. I've made enough of it.

Marilyn Manson

I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs.

Mason Cooley

The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

Theodore Roosevelt

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other.

Michael Foot

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

Clearly, an organization has to be accountable, but (should not have to) put all (its) eggs in a narrow testing basket.

Lance Berkman

What comes first, the chicken or the egg? You start out bad, you don't really feel right, you don't have the same explosion, then you start to lose confidence, you start to doubt your ability. It's a snowball effect.

John Shelby Spong

In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.

Lamar Alexander

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now

Libba Bray

Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?

Chris Phillips

The good thing is, I had the whole net to shoot at. I was starting to wonder what it was going to take and I didn't like having that goose egg next to my name. If I had missed that one, I really would have had problems.

Henry David Thoreau

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

James Beard

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

Johnny Vegas

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

Jim Rogers

Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients. Henry Ford never diversified, Bill Gates didn't diversify. The way to get rich is to put your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket very carefully. And make sure you have the right basket.

You folks are like the pig at a ham and egg breakfast. You are committed.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.

You can't put a goose egg up. That is what happened, we were put in a hole, down 22 and we made some adjustments and got back into the game.

These kids are not being properly counted. I think the state of Washington has undeserved egg on its face.

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.

Stephen King

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Sylvia Plath

It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast and in the face of Buddy Willard, who was responsible for my seeing it in the first place, and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadavers head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.

Stephen Colbert

You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette.

Tim Conway

My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.

Thomas Jefferson

I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

William Morris Hunt

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

Ronald Reagan

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Saint Augustine

The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.