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
  • Easter
  • Eggs

• 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

• 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

• 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

• But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Streets
  • Remarkable
  • Eggs

• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Companies

• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Women
  • Wife

• Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Experience
  • Teacher
  • Favorites

• The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• If one less kid can grow up without hiding who they are along the way or having to believe that who they love is something that will make them lonely, then everything I went through will be worth it.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Believe
  • Everything
  • Lonely

• Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • People
  • Lifetime
  • Magician

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

  

  George M. Humphrey
  • Consumers
  • Eggs
  • Payroll