George M. Humphrey Quotes

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

George M. Humphrey

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• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Eggs

• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Time
  • Meat
  • Eggs

• Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Sell

• I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Reason
  • Same
  • Eggs

• Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Use
  • Eggs
  • Easter

• What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Why
  • Food
  • Medicine

• By keeping the Internet free of discriminatory taxes, we've encouraged companies and consumers to do their business in the electronic marketplace, ... Congress originally enacted the moratorium to prevent thousands of state and local taxing jurisdictions from using the Internet as a cash cow. Rather than slow down the Internet with a slew of new taxes, we ought to extend the moratorium to allow the Web to reach its full potential.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Business
  • Free
  • Taxes

• Just before consumers stop doing something, they do it with a vengeance.

  

  Faith Popcorn
  • Stop
  • Consumers
  • Vengeance

• Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Farmer

• Spare feast! a radish and an egg.

  

  William Cowper
  • Eggs
  • Spares
  • Radishes

• We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Consumers
  • Conformist

• We should not forget either about the interests of the regular consumers who need the prices in supermarkets to be a little bit lower.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Forget
  • Interest
  • Littles

• 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.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Drawing
  • Lines
  • Backgrounds

• No matter how big the number is, we are going to sell out, ... We are going to have some disappointment with retailers and consumers.

  

  J Allard
  • Disappointment
  • Consumers
  • Retailers

• You can't make an egg without frying an egg

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Eggs
  • Frying

• Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. "Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman," she said, her voice rising to a wail, "sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant."

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Night
  • Voice
  • Sweet

• To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

  

  Umberto Boccioni

• Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from human skill. But eating alone is not enough for health. There must also be exercise, of which the effects must likewise be known. The combination of these two things makes regimen, when proper attention is given to the season of the year, the changes of the wind, the age of the individual, and the situation of his home. If there is any deficiency in food or exercise, the body will fall sick.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Health
  • Exercise
  • Powers

• I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

  

  George Michael
  • People
  • Pain
  • Options

• For inspiration you go to the archives, you go to things of the past, but you still need to be contemporary for today. You can never forget the time you're living in because the past is the past and it will never come back.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Time
  • Today
  • Past

• When it's one animal, you really do have a tougher time because you've gotta commit to story structures that maybe are difficult to find the range in the animal to tell those stories. There are only so many things they do, if they're living in the natural world, that we can appreciate. There are plenty of things that they do that we don't appreciate.

  

  David Douglas
  • Time
  • World
  • Animal

• The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

  

  George M. Humphrey
  • Consumers
  • Eggs
  • Payroll