Eggs Quotes - Page 5

• He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

  C. S. Lewis

  Easter, Food, Heart

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Way, Manners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Rabbits

  Animal Farm (1945) ch. 1

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Nursing, Thinking, Doctors

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• The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Ocean, Vacation, Ice Cream

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• I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Baskets, Dump, Knows

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• I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

  Grace Slick

  Food, Pigs, Cake

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• It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

  Henry James

  Food, Cooking, Done

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: The Continent”, p.266, Library of America

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• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Hands, Directors, Golden

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Think about for a minute what your body goes through out there. On a Friday night, you have a steak and then Saturday morning, you get up and have some eggs and some pancakes. Then Sunday, you're on 'Survivor' and suddenly you have nothing.

  Jeff Probst

  Friday, Morning, Sunday

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• Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

  Coolio

  Sexy, Food, Water

  Coolio (2009). “Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

  Johnny Vegas

  Looks, Ankles, Legs

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• That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Gratitude

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

  George M. Humphrey

  Golden, Consumers, Payroll

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• But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.

  Eva Herzigova

  Keys, Cake, Recipes

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• Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Beautiful, Weed, Nature

  Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”

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• It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

  Lionel Blue

  Meat, Good Work, Rabbi

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• Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer.

  Conan O'Brien

  Timing, Contracts, Timer

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• 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

  Food, Thinking, Order

  "Fictional character: Betty MacDonald". "The Egg and I", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• I guess I am going to think about freezing my eggs.

  Sofia Vergara

  Thinking, Freezing

  "Sofia Vergara Is Thinking Of Freezing Her Eggs". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Seriously, I think everybody needs to be more disciplined; nobody needs any meat. But from a perspective of how many animals suffer, it's probably better to kill and eat one whale than it is to eat fish, chickens, cows, lambs and eggs.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Whales

  "Soldiering On, Part I: PETA at 20 Years". Interview with Catherine Clyne, www.satyamag.com. November/December 2000.

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• As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mother, Brother

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• I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.

  Lamar Alexander

  Reality, Needs, Dozen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Agency, Needs

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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