Eggs Quotes
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[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.
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Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.
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The test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.
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I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.
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At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.
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I didn't know if Skynyrd fans were going to throw rocks at me or eggs or what.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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You can't make an egg without frying an egg
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It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
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Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.
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Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.
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If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
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I love eggs fried over medium.
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Put all your eggs in one basket. Then you're less likely to drop that basket.
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When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.
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There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
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It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
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Breakfast - which I didn't mind skipping; if the eggs had been any runnier and the bacon a little less fatty, I could have raced them against each other around my plate.
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All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
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Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
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The greatest safety lies in putting all your eggs in one basket and watching the basket.
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The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.
