Eggs Quotes - Page 34

• I give myself the luxury of time in shaping a song. It's very common for me to work three months or more on a single song. Plotting takes time and effort, for there are many false turns. I fill up pages and pages with my mistakes, thereby eliminating them. Eventually a trail is broken through this mountain of mistakes. Sometimes it's as easy as putting eggs in a basket; other times it's like trying to pound a ton of sand into a diamond.

  David Massengill

  Song, Mistake, Writing

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• I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.

  Sarah Dessen

  Beach, Writing, Motherhood

  "Goodreads YA Interview - Sarah Dessen". Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. May 2015.

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• Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Law, Perfection, Preacher

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1734

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• What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

  Margaret Atwood

  Night, Light, Two

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.22, Anchor

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• The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, Needs, Fields

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Time, Past, Arrows

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• In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

  Mao Zedong

  Stones, Temperature, Chickens

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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

  Men, Generosity, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• I lied on my Weight Watchers list. I put down that I had 3 eggs... but they were Cadbury chocolate eggs.

  Caroline Rhea

  Easter, Weight Watchers, Chocolate Eggs

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• Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

  Natalie Angier

  Party, Needs, Tails

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

  Orson Scott Card

  Broken

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• It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life..._

  Alice Hoffman

  Acting, Asking, World

  Alice Hoffman (2003). “Indigo”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maddie took the top of her egg off. The hot bright yolk was like summer sun breaking through cloud. The first daffodil in the snow. A gold sovereign wrapped in a white silk handkerchief. She dipped her spoon in it and licked it.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Summer, Clouds, White

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.110, Egmont UK

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• In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

  Anna Freud

  Dream, Want, Our Dreams

  "Insatiable creatures" by Adam Phillips, August 7, 2009.

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• Death laid its eggs in the wound

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Wounds

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• "Why are breakfast food breakfast foods?" I asked them. "Like, why don't we have curry for breakfast?" "Hazel, eat." "But why?" I asked. "I mean seriously: How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich."

  John Green

  Mean, Breakfast Food, Sandwiches

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

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• Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.

  Luis Bunuel

  Couple, Doors, Naked

  "My Last Sigh". Book by Luis Bunuel, 1983.

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• Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

  David Mitchell

  Bad Mood, Bricks, Good Mood

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• Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Moving, Dark, Night

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• Don't fight in front of the client, boys." Catarina implored in her sweet voice," or I will knock your heads together so hard, your skulls will crack like eggs

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Fighting, Boys

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.

  Sarah Dessen

  Broken, Trying, Done

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.93, Penguin

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• How would you like your eggs?" I tried. I really did. But I glanced at his crotch and it came out anyway. "Fertilized?

  Darynda Jones

  Charley Davidson, Reyes Farrow

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.178, Macmillan

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• You know, out-of-touch liberals like Barack Obama say they want a strong economy, but in everything they do, they show they don't like business very much. But the economy, of course, is simply the product of all the businesses of the nation added together. So it's a bit like saying you like an omelet, but you don't like eggs.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Together, Want

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• All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

  Ian Mckellen

  Hopeless, Certain, Areas

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• Socialism is in no way a curate's egg

  Margaret Thatcher

  Way, Socialism

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