Eggs Quotes - Page 24

• They had reached Lockhart's classroom...'You could've fried an egg on your face" said Ron. 'You'd better hope Creevey doesn't meet Ginny, or they'll be starting a Harry Potter fan club.' 'Shut up,' snapped Harry. The last thing he needed was for Lockhart to hear the phrase 'Harry Potter fan club.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fans, Phrases, Potters

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• Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She churned her fists like an egg-beater. Every action echoed down the line behind her. The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp. Then a penguin waddle. Then tippy-toed priss. Every new move brought new laughter from the line.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Stars, Laughter, Believe

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.107, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Flower, Heart

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• I'm sure that in the fullness of time we'll learn that one or more of these seemingly promising technologies were dead ends. And that's the nature of innovation, and that's why we should spread our bets; we should not put our eggs in any one basket. Some of these will be grand successes, some of them will be average, and some of them will be abject failures.

  Jay Inslee

  Technology, Average, Innovation

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Bankers, Golden, Privilege

  Louis D. Brandeis (2009). “Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am moving towards being vegan. When I crack an egg now, I look and think could that have become a baby

  Heather Mills

  Baby, Moving, Thinking

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• I can eat fifty eggs.

  Paul Newman

  Fifty, I Can

  "Fictional character: Luke". "Cool Hand Luke", www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• Fish without wine is like egg without salt.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Wine, Salt, Fishes

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• Today life opened inside me like an egg.

  Anne Sexton

  Today Life, Today

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die.I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

  Shania Twain

  Thinking, Healthy, Meat

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• Don't put eggs under dead chickens.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Chickens

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• By far the most dangerous people in the world are optimists (those who believe that all can be made well here below). If you think all can be made well in this world, then you will go to any extreme to make it happen. There is the story of the 20th century. As Lenin said, "You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs".

  Robert Barron

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• For me - showing a half-finished manuscript is tricky. Just as a bird will get spooked and abandon her eggs if some outside party comes around and makes too much noise or pokes around the nest too intrusively - well, that's what it's like for me if I show work too early and I get a lot of editorial suggestions at the wrong time.

  Donna Tartt

  Party, Bird, Suggestions

  Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.slate.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.

  Joel Salatin

  Smell, Cooking, Important

  Interview with Malcolm Jolley, www.goodfoodrevolution.com.

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• When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Travel, Morning, Room Service

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• Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

  Tom Hardy

  Motivation, White, Meals

  "Bronson - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents.

  Jack London

  Life, Father, Opportunity

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.552, Delphi Classics

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• I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

  James Beard

  Memorable, Simple, Meals

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• Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

  Frank McCourt

  Sweet, Heaven, Tea

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.

  Alan King

  Sex, Pleasure, Salami

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• I don't think I've ever bench-pressed anything in my life. Until about two years ago I swam a mile almost every day. Then I stopped and I lost a lot of weight because my appetite was less. I'm not skinny now - I'm spindly. I eat an extremely simple diet - mostly salmon, avocado, feta cheese, chicken, eggs, peanut butter, blueberries, and quinoa.

  Nick Antosca

  Simple, Thinking, Years

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.

  Gabriela Isler

  Vegetables, White, Breakfast

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• Translator Dlique was saying, very earnestly, “Eggs are so inadequate, don't you think? I mean, they ought to be able to become anything, but instead you always get a chicken. Or a duck. Or whatever they're programmed to be. You never get anything interesting, like regret, or the middle of the night last week.

  Ann Leckie

  Regret, Mean, Night

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• How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

  William Morris Hunt

  White, Drawing, Lines

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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