Eggs Quotes
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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.
Chic Murray
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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.
H. G. Wells
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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.
Nancy Mitford
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You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!
C. S. Lewis
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All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
Charles A. Dana
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I experimented with drugs and I experimented with everything that little boys do - vandalism, throwing eggs at cars, breaking and entering schools and destroying a room. But I finally got to a point where I looked around and said, "This is not getting me anywhere. I'm stagnating with these guys." They were getting drunk and high every weekend. I got out.
Johnny Depp
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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.
Vladimir Nabokov
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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.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.
William Gibson
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The hard reality is that the omelette has been made and you cannot get your egg back.
K.P. Fabian
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Put all your eggs in one basket. Then you're less likely to drop that basket.
David Haye
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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.
Casey Affleck
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Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.
Erol Alkan
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You can't make an egg without frying an egg
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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I didn't know if Skynyrd fans were going to throw rocks at me or eggs or what.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.
Tom Hollander
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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.
Vito Fossella
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I love eggs fried over medium.
Slick Rick
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Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not.
Erma Bombeck
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When we first put 'Let It Be' out, I had to cut out a lot of stuff that I really like and wanted to stay in there. The stuff in the new DVD has a lot of the stuff that had to be cut out. So for me, it's like the egg is now complete.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
Stephen Covey
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I can eat fifty eggs.
Paul Newman
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And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
Ogden Nash