Egg Quotes
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The waves rolled in like blue metal tubes carrying an egg white of foam on their peaks, then broke in a thousand glittering splinters and came up to the street with an oh of wonder and fear from those watching.
Elena Ferrante -
When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.
Ben Aaronovitch
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That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.
Claudette Colbert -
I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.
Alice Thomas Ellis -
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
George Eliot -
The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
Clarence Day -
Sure I'm a dreamer; that's what Wally Hickel is all about. Our goose that laid the golden egg, the North Slope oil, is running out, so we've got to build more geese.
Wally Hickel
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The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.
Burne Hogarth -
I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
Jasper Fforde -
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
Jasper Fforde -
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.
Jane Austen -
Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.
Elizabeth Wein
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Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.
Conan O'Brien -
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
Rudyard Kipling -
Thyroid secretions in adequate amounts appear to be essential for development of the egg and for proper ovarian secretions. If thyroid function is low, an egg may be discharged from an ovary but it may not be fertilizable or, if fertilized, may not be capable of nesting so that pregnancy is quickly aborted.
Broda Otto Barnes -
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!
Delia Smith -
The world broke open like a big white egg.
Cressida Cowell -
Man is on earth as in an egg.
Heraclitus
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The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.
Hermann Hesse -
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
Emily Dickinson -
I’d been warned in advance, so I’d given it some thought. When it was my turn and I stood up and called for life, liberty and peace and managed to sit down before I added a hard-boiled egg to the list.
Ben Aaronovitch -
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.
Haruki Murakami