Eggs Quotes - Page 12

• Greetings, ax murderer! I was just wondering how you like your eggs?

  Libba Bray

  Wonder, Murderer, Greetings

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.36, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Poireaux vinaigrette aux grains de caviar.” I did a quick translation. “Leeks and fish eggs in vinegar?” He grinned. “It sounds better in French.” Yeah, but did it taste better?

  Karen Chance

  Sound, Caviar, Taste

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.125, Penguin

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• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hate, Home, Thinking

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• The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father’s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Father, Mean, Son

  The Great Gatsby ch. 6 (1925)

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• That's our plan? We're going to walk fifty kilometers, right past the Germans, to a poultry collective that maybe didn't get burned down, grab a dozen eggs, and come home?" "Well, anything would sound ridiculous if said it in that tone of voice." "Tone of....I'm asking you a question!

  David Benioff

  Home, Past, Voice

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• I do not live happily or comfortably With the cleverness of our times. The talk is all about computers, The news is all about bombs and blood. This morning, in the fresh field, I came upon a hidden nest. It held four warm, speckled eggs. I touched them. Then went away softly, Having felt something more wonderful Than all the electricity of New York City.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, New York, Blood

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.40, Beacon Press

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• By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing,” said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. “It’s all heartbreak, death and unrequited love.” “Well, that is what most songs are about,” said Will. “Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Depressing, Nice

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• In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Book, Writing, Epic

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• It turns out that Molly wasn't her mother's daughter in that respect. Charity was like the MacGuyver of the kitchen. She could whip up a five-course meal for twelve from an egg, two spaghetti noodles, some household chemicals, and a stick of chewing gum. Molly ... Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

  Jim Butcher

  Daughter, Mother, Two

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• Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Dog, Mean

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Lakes, Clouds

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• He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Home, Long, Kitchen

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

  David Walliams

  Nice, Cake, Space

  "Mr. Stink". Book by David Walliams, www.mirror.co.uk. 2009.

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• Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

  Terry Pratchett

  Justice, Boiled Eggs, Hard

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• This is what life does. It lets you walk up to
  the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a
  stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have
  your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman
  down beside you at the counter who says, Last night,
  the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder,
  is this a message, finally, or just another day?

  Eleanor Lerman

  Coffee, Night, Doe

  Eleanor Lerman (2005). “Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds”

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• If you could choose to master a single ingredient, no choice would teach you more about cooking than the egg. It is an end in itself; it's a multipurpose ingredient; it's an all-purpose garnish; it's an invaluable tool. The egg teaches your hands finesse and delicacy. It helps your arms develop strength and stamina. It instructs in the way proteins behave in heat and in the powerful ways we can change food mechanically. It's a lever for getting other foods to behave in great ways. Learn to take the egg to its many differing ends, and you've enlarged your culinary repertoire by a factor of ten.

  Michael Ruhlman

  Powerful, Hands, Choices

  Michael Ruhlman (2011). “Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 200 Recipes, A Cook's Manifesto”, p.104, Chronicle Books

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• One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on his shirt and more too because the mirror in the hall has given up the ghost. A shipwrecked man without an anchor in the world except in his own liquid thoughts where time has lost its sequence.

  Per Petterson

  Men, Anchors, Mirrors

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• I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket.

  Darren Rowse

  Funny, Thoughtful, Long

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
  Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
  Or arm th' obdured breast
  With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, White, House

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• To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

  Jeb Bush

  Government, Long, Political

  "Deinventing Government". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. June, 1995.

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• Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

  Irma S. Rombauer

  Food, Imagination, Cooking

  IRMA S ROMBAUER (1964). “VOLUME 2 APPETIZERS DESSERTS AND BAKED GOODS JOY OF COOKING”

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• I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Heart, Men, Liberal Media

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• It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.

  Robert Orben

  Way, Hong Kong, Egg Rolls

  Robert Orben (1978). “2000 new laughs for speakers: the ad-libber's handbook”, Random House Value Pub

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• Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it and was on my ass in a flash. Must have looked good, huh? A hundred million guys watching all around the world, brass bands playing, the Russian cats in the stands, and here I am dumped on the ice. So I waved to the folks back home inthe Soo, a wave from the dummy with egg on his face.

  Phil Esposito

  Nice, Flower, Home

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• Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

  Robert Herrick

  Kissing, White, Legs

  'On Julia's Legs'

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