Famous Quotes & Sayings

Estella Warren

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

Groucho Marx

If we had some eggs we could have eggs and ham, if we had some ham.

Giovanni Trapattoni

We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs.

Harold Wilson

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

Harper Lee

When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

Halle Berry

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. When you are so ready, you can't do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are ripe as could be. The eggs should become more developed the older you get, not die slowly from the day you're born. That's one thing God got wrong.

Iggy Pop

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

Ian Mckellen

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

For next year, we need people in Florida, ... We're putting all our eggs in the recruitment effort.

George Bernard Shaw

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Chrissy Teigen

I have to have breakfast and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy,

Federico Garcia Lorca

Death laid its eggs in the wound

George Eliot

Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

George Eliot

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

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.

People realize it's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket.

They didn't like us having all our eggs in one basket, so to speak.

You take the eggs and shake them kind of violently. You're not playing games there.

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.

Joseph Stalin

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.