Eggs Quotes - Page 3

• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sunset, Fire, Sky

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1981). “The Unspeakable Skipton”

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• Pumpkin spice lattes are egg nog for morning people.

  John Oliver

  Morning, People, Spices

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• We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Fear, Variables, Taste

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• The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.

  Saint Augustine

  Forgiving, Debtors, Sin

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 51-94”, p.115

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• I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

  Billy Wilder

  Funny, Twenties, Minutes

  "Fictional character: Lorraine". "Ace in the Hole", www.imdb.com. 1951.

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• Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

  William Cowper

  Regret, Pleasure, Remorse

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• I've never worked out what the moral of Humpty Dumpty is. I can only think of: Don't sit on a wall, if you're an egg.

  Ricky Gervais

  Funny, Wall, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Oct 15, 2013

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• You CAN make an omelette without breaking eggs. It's just a really bad omelette.

  Stephen Colbert

  Breaking Eggs

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• I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

  Groucho Marx

  Hate, Book, Thinking

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.29, Da Capo Press

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• Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

  Guy de Maupassant

  War, Patriotic, Political

  Guy de Maupassant (1926*). “The Novels and Tales of Guy de Maupassant”

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• Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

  Jim Carrey

  Kids, Trying, Stories

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• I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

  Bill Buckner

  Steps, Feels, Walking

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• If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, America

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• A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Ducks, Water, Bird

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• Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

  Ron Atkinson

  Football

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

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• The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

  Alexander Pope

  Cooking, Vulgar, Cookery

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1835). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, being the prologue to the satires. Satires, epistles, and odes of Horace imitated. Epitaphs. The Dunciad, in four books”, p.75

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• I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Frightened, Revolt, Jolly

  News summaries, December 31, 1963.

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• You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

  Audre Lorde

  Fighting, Blow, Floating

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

  George Orwell

  Running, Fear, Animal

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

  John Lahr

  Long

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• I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

  Susan George

  Issues, Years, Two

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• It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Sitting, Hens, Brooding

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• I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

  Fran Drescher

  Children, Ovaries, Harvest

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• I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

  Judd Nelson

  Eye, Actors, Nests

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

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• My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.

  Tim Conway

  Careers, Valleys, Eating

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