Eggs Quotes - Page 12

• So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

  Mark Forsyth

  Fart, Century, Chickens

  Mark Forsyth (2012). “The Horologicon”, p.36, Icon Books

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• We're trying to make our current house look domestic so that somebody will want to buy it. We're making a lot of simple, obvious improvements that never would have occurred to us to make while we actually lived here, because, tragically, we both happen to be domestically impaired. If we were birds, our nest would consist of a single twig with the eggs attached via Scotch tape.

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Scotch, Bird

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.71, Crown Archetype

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• I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

  Margaret Cho

  Airports, White, Racism

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• A question that often comes up at times of strategic transformation is, should you pursue a highly focused approach, betting everything on one strategic goal, or should you hedge? ... Mark Twain hit it on the head when he said, Put all of your eggs in one basket and WATCH THAT BASKET.

  Andy Grove

  Goal, Watches, Transformation

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• Tell me why it is that a toddler will gag over a perfectly wonderful breakfast of ham, eggs, biscuits, juice, and jelly. But then he will enthusiastically drink the dog's water and play in the toilet. Truly, he is his mother's greatest challenge...; and her most inexpressible joy.

  James Dobson

  Mother, Dog, Play

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• Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

  Iggy Pop

  Fists, Joints, Cigarette

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• No doves come from ravens’ eggs

  Hannah Kent

  Ravens, Dove

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.84, Pan Macmillan

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• My keep-match meals: I'm good to go together with kale salad. Actually, Justin [Theroux] makes an ideal one with a poached egg and quinoa. It's actually scrumptious.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Kale, Together, Meals

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• It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.

  Justine Kurland

  Easter, Reality, Thinking

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• Downloading a Tamagotchi egg onto my phone is possibly the loudest my biological clock has ever ticked.

  AJ Lee

  Phones, Clock, Biological Clock

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• Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.

  Clementa C. Pinckney

  Police, Cameras, Records

  "Charleston shooting: state senator Clementa Pinckney among victims" by Matthew Weaver, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2015.

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• When my mother would make me sandwiches for school - zucchini and eggs, pepper and eggs, everything was with eggs - the oil would drip out of the bag. She didn't care if I lost the sandwich - she wanted that brown bag back. She used to give me artichoke sandwiches. You have no idea how embarrassing it is to sit in the schoolyard eating an artichoke with a piece of bread. A lot of kids didn't know what it was, they'd say, Look at that guy eating flowers!

  Pat Cooper

  Mother, Flower, Kids

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• Egg nog. Because nothing satisfies like a cold glass of eggs.

  Dana Gould

  Glasses, Cold

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• I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust me. I was the only kid on the block egging houses with those big 'ole brown eggs. Like, you didn't have to be a detective to figure it out. 'Oh, I wonder who Tofuttied my mailbox. Is it the same evil genius who filled my bird bath with Rice Dream?

  Arj Barker

  Dream, Block, Halloween

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• They call it torture when our guys put underwear on a guy's head, stripped him naked, put an egg between his buttcheeks and made him do jumping jacks. You know, if it can't get you into a fraternity at Chico State University, it's not torture.

  Christopher Titus

  Jumping, Guy, Underwear

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

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• Don't count your eggs until the chicken's laid them.

  Bobby Robson

  England, Chickens

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• Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking.

  Bill Burr

  Sleep, Sunday, Thinking

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• I eat 6 or 7 raw vegetables every day, 4 or 5 pieces of fresh fruit. I eat egg whites each day. If I eat bread, it has to be whole wheat. I eat brown rice. I don't eat between meals. I eat at 11 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock at night.

  Jack LaLanne

  Morning, Night, Vegetables

  Interview with Antonia Venezia, aliveeastbay.com. March 2007.

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• Some pale, hueless flicker of sensitivity is in me. God, must I lose it in cooking scrambled eggs for a man.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Cooking, Pale

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.33, Anchor

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• A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Selfish, Book, Writing

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails.

  David Letterman

  Easter, Kids, Years

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• If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the earth, or refusing water to dying migrants, then you might as well believe bunnies lay painted eggs.

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, War, Believe

  "HBO Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 31, 2006.

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• I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Success, Powerful

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• There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Science, Guy

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• [On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least - call it a mechanospiritual sense - we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

  Natalie Angier

  Women, Extinction, Enough

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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