Eggs Quotes - Page 13

• I'm trying to paint an underwater ocean scene. It's just not working. My queen angelfish is supposed to have these bright yellow eyes and electric-blue stripes along the edge of her fin. Instead, it looks like I'm trying to paint a fried egg with some blue bacon. Maybe I can pass it off as postmodern.

  Susane Colasanti

  Queens, Ocean, Eye

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.54, Penguin

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• I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Nba, Play, Shells

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• The bottom line is that I'm an actor, so when somebody pitches me a great part, it's a no-brainer. You never know what it's gonna be like, in terms of the actual experience. You can be really excited about a part that can turn out shitty, you can have a bad time, there's a bad egg or two or three, in the bunch, or the producers are weird, or something like that.

  Kathy Bates

  Two, Actors, Lines

  "Kathy Bates Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN, Working with other Talented Women, Her Cruel Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 4, 2014.

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• For me, I just never put all my eggs in one basket, so to speak. I know that music and acting now are things that I want to do for the rest of my life. But, if suddenly that was to stop, I'd actually be okay. It's not the be all, end all of my life. I know who I am, outside of this, and I think that's a really big thing to have.

  Jordin Sparks

  Thinking, Who I Am, Acting

  "Jordin Sparks Talks THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER & PETE, Filming LEFT BEHIND with Nicolas Cage, IN THE HEIGHTS on Broadway, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 12, 2013.

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• An egg cream can do anything. An egg cream to a Brooklyn Jew is like water to an Arab. A Jew will kill for an egg cream. It's the Jewish malmsey.

  Mel Brooks

  Water, Brooklyn, Jew

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belt, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz

  Reading, Love Is, People

  Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Leaving Brooklyn”, p.26, Hawthorne Books

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• We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

  Susan Griffin

  Girl, Spring, Flower

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• Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.

  Conan O'Brien

  Easter, White, Drunk

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• When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge-egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Children, Ice Cream

  Eudora Welty, Pearl Amelia McHaney (2009). “Occasions: Selected Writings”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.

  Jack Vance

  Men, Air, Iron

  "Madouc". Book by Jack Vance, 1989.

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• I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.

  Robert Moses

  Ghetto, People, Chef

  "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.

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• I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.

  Alton Brown

  Simple, Cooking, Needs

  "Alton Brown Answers, At Last". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. September 12, 2002.

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• The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.

  Robert Jordan

  Skins, Doe, Legs

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.383, Macmillan

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• When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Morning, Night, Nuts

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• Where you really have your eggs in one basket and that breach happens and you know you should go but you're still in love and you just don't know what to do. It hits you because it's not like -- you're a cheater, and a liar, and I hate you, and you're no good, and I'm leaving. It's not that. It's like, I'm tormented. Even though you've done this and I know it, I still don't know what to do. I know I should go, but I don't want to. And that's why it's such a f***ed-up thing.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hate, Liars, Cheater

  Interview with Candice Rainey, www.elle.com. January 5, 2010.

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• I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort.

  Julie Powell

  Home, Mean, Chocolate

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• I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.

  Eva Longoria

  Mom, Color, Yellow

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• 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

  Block, Cylinders, Three

  Burne Hogarth (1996). “Dynamic Figure Drawing”

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• I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

  Adam Rapp

  Heart, Doctors, Perfect

  Adam Rapp (2012). “The Children and the Wolves”, p.9, Candlewick Press

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• You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, Blue, Play

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Summer, Morning

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Kindness, Condolences, Opportunity

  Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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• Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'

  Tom Deacon

  Girl, People, Bird

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• Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.

  Will Rogers

  Ham, Newspapers, Leaving Me

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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• I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.

  Nancy Spain

  Book, Dirty, People

  Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”

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