Eggs Quotes - Page 23

• If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Winter, Journey, Long

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?

  John Steinbeck

  Baby, Shapes, Littles

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.108, Penguin

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• How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

  Rita Rudner

  Food, Cake, Water

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• You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

  C. S. Lewis

  Remember You, Remembers You, Trying

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.41, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning

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• Ladies. Large masses of girls are often prone to this salutation. I hate being mollified with this unsolicited "ladies" business. I know we're all women. I am conscious of my breasts. Do I have to be conscious of yours as well? Do men do this? Do they go, "Men: Meet for ribs in the shed after the game. Keg beer, raw eggs, and death metal only." I would imagine not.

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Hate, Beer

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.133, Portobello Books

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• Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don't drop it, Brunstetter. I'm to take it home and raise it. Ridiculous. Being a parent at my age. Where were we? Oh, yes, three. One o'rant, two kimens, two minor dragons. Eight. A librarian and a diplomat. Ten.

  Donita K. Paul

  Home, Thinking, Eight

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.304, WaterBrook

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• Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

  Nora Roberts

  Break, Baskets, Handle

  Nora Roberts (2010). “Hot Rocks”, p.183, Penguin

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• Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen in the dead of the night.

  Roald Dahl

  Night, Stolen, Whipped Cream

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• An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

  E. B. White

  Life, Challenges, Life Challenges

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• Conventional wisdom is not to put all of your eggs in one basket. 80/20 wisdom is to choose a basket carefully, load all your eggs into it, and then watch it like a hawk.

  Richard Koch

  Wisdom, Watches, Hawks

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind of satisfaction not unlike that which a hen enjoys on laying an egg.

  H. L. Mencken

  Work, Men, Relief

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.33, Knopf

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• What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

  George Eliot

  Time, Opportunity, Men

  George Eliot (1860). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.45

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• The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.

  B. H. Roberts

  Brother, Character, Mean

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• But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.

  Seth Godin

  Writing, Talking, Marketing

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• The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Father, Humorous, Age

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• When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.

  Sam Ewing

  Mother, Thinking, Salmon

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• A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!

  William Kunstler

  Animal, Names, Meat

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• A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of million light years from end to end. As it closed up [...] Two hundred and thirty-nine thousand lightly fried eggs fell out of it...materializing in a large woobly heap on the famine-struck land of Poghril in the Pansel system. The whole Poghril tribe had died out from famine except for one last man who died of cholesterol poisoning some weeks later.

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Light, Years

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• To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Ducks, Swans, Ugly Duckling

  Hans Christian Andersen (1867). “Hans Andersen's fairy tales, a new tr. by mrs. Paull”, p.33

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• Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

  John Updike

  Writing, Chickens, Lays

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• Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried.

  Fernando Sabino

  Memories, Boys, Men

  Fernando Tavares Sabino (1967). “A time to meet”, Harvill Press

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• Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Passion, Winter, Journey

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2013). “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctica, 1910-1913”, p.463, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard

  Winter, Journey, Years

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• I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.

  Jack Ohman

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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