Top 100 Egg Quotes
#1. You will need to know the difference between Friday and a fried egg. It's quite a simple difference, but an important one. Friday comes at the end of the week, whereas a fried egg comes out of a hen. Like most things, of course, it isn't quite that simple.
Douglas Adams
#2. He got the impression she might be a bit fucked up, but that had always been his type. The kind that would break your headlights, egg your house, spray paint ASSHOLE on your garage door.
C.D. Breadner
#3. In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians' fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Thomas Sowell
#4. ( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from sheer sympathy with failure ( ... )
Vladimir Nabokov
#5. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
#7. I am moving towards being vegan. When I crack an egg now, I look and think could that have become a baby
Heather Mills
#8. It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.
Robert Orben
#9. The Easter egg which was not found
contained a letter from the hen who laid it,
saying Fuck your kids,
What about mine?
Shay Caroline
#10. Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
Ann Richards
#11. Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#12. Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them
the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs ... if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#14. It was not an ogre's soul in that egg," said Toby in a burst of passionate despair. "It was mine.
L.M. Boston
#15. Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg.
Zhuangzi
#16. Happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all. Their house was even more elaborate than
F Scott Fitzgerald
#17. What was it like out there? Away from the city?"
"Quiet," Gib chuckled. "My neighbor once had a chicken lay an egg that hatched two chicks. That was big news for a year.
Shiriluna Nott
#18. Going to a dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler.
James Joyce
#19. And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.
Paul Krugman
#20. My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night it was to time an egg.
Rodney Dangerfield
#21. A smile, a weird one, nestled in his mouth like an egg.
Lorrie Moore
#22. There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.
Burne Hogarth
#23. I'm technically a vegan, but I do eat egg if it's in things.
Mayim Bialik
#24. So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.
Sol Luckman
#25. A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. Looking desultorily about, his attention had been drawn by a dull glimmering on one of the tables; and he had extricated the queer orblike stone from its shadowy, crowded position between an ugly little Aztec idol, the fossil egg of a dinornis, and an obscene fetish of black wood from the Niger.
H.P. Lovecraft
#27. Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he's a dragon in human form, you know. That's why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he'd think himself an apple and we'd all be a deal safer, but there you are.
George R R Martin
#28. I approach cooking from a science angle because I need to understand how things work. If I understand the egg, I can scramble it better. It's a simple as that.
Alton Brown
#29. I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.
Estella Warren
#30. Take this one to the bank: birds are hatched from eggs and are always egg-shaped. Maybe there's no escaping the shape that molds you, no getting around how you got started even if you do break out.
Tupelo Hassman
#31. The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
Nathan Myhrvold
#32. All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.
Ian McKellen
#33. We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.
T. S. Eliot
#34. What do you want?" Jake asked.
"Nothing. Can't I sit down for a chat with someone I once shared an egg with?"
"Trevor, you never chat with me. You mock me, you torment me, and sometimes you even say something profound. But you never chat. So spit it out and put me out of my misery.
Kat Attalla
#35. I felt like a newly laid egg, all swishy and gloopy inside, and so fragile that the slightest pressure could break me.
Gail Honeyman
#36. Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.
Joan Rivers
#37. When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
Noel Gallagher
#38. When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
Mitt Romney
#39. If she [Mrs. Homemaker] didn't know how much she needed convenience, it was up to inventors like Clausi to show her the way.
Michael Moss
#40. What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation,
God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
Brennan Manning
#41. The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg ... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.
Bill Bailey
#42. Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#43. I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?
Justina Chen
#44. I'm sort of shy, and Twitter feels like chatting all day with a group. I like to follow people. I'm following Joel Osteen, Steve Martin, and an anonymous purple egg - just to see where they go with it.
Maria Bamford
#45. My mother's view on love appalled me. It suggested love had more in common with the boiling of an egg than the discovery of another person from whom one couldn't bear to live apart
Rachel Joyce
#47. Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.
Elizabeth Enright
#48. This morning I paid seventy cents for two little old dried-up slivers of bacon and one cockeyed egg. It took me till noon to get my appetite back.
Langston Hughes
#49. He dreamt ... he was a huge white egg floating in the sea of turquoise blue, and he was everything that there was.
Iris Murdoch
#50. Eggs possess an elemental power. Their outer shell is earth. Their white is water. The membrane that lines the shell is air, and the yolk at the core is fire. The core of the egg preserves life and being, and therefore represents heaven and earth, while the white represents chaos.
Joanne Owen
#51. I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.
David Self
#52. Where I'm from, people aren't quick. A girl once asked her mum, 'Can I have a Cadbury's Creme Egg?' The mum said, 'No, you can't Danielle, I've already told you, darling - bird flu!'
Tom Deacon
#53. It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.
William J. Bernstein
#54. Reggie's earliest memory of her mother began with her mother balancing an egg on its end and ended with Reggie losing her left ear.
Jennifer McMahon
#55. The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision
it pleasurably reaffirms your Jewishness.
Mel Brooks
#56. What are you doing?"
"I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me.
"What's that lump inside?"
"A sock egg."
"A sock egg? I didn't know socks hatched from eggs."
"Only the best ones do. I can't wear the cheap kind, the ones that grow on trees. They give me blisters.
Polly Shulman
#57. His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. 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
#58. 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
#59. L'art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
Ezra Pound
#60. I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.
Beyonce Knowles
#61. Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.
John Sulston
#62. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#63. How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps.
Gustave Flaubert
#67. How can we talk about the rights of a fertilized egg when we don't care enough to see that every child is born into a stable, safe, and nurturing environment?
Rebecca Warner
#68. A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.
Fernand Point
#69. At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I'm told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.
Suresh Raina
#70. Kill the boy within you, I told him the day I took ship for the Wall. It takes a man to rule. An Aegon, not an Egg. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
Anonymous
#71. No stone was left unturned in the unearthing of musical masterpieces."
About Egg, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#72. An egg is a thing that must be careful. That's why the chicken is the egg's disguise. The chicken exists so that the egg can traverse the ages. That's what a mother is for.
Clarice Lispector
#73. An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.
Oscar Wilde
#74. The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.
William Faulkner
#75. I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort.
Julie Powell
#76. There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
Tasha Smith
#77. The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?
Mason Cooley
#78. I was the girl with cake batter in her hair, egg on her shirt and her foot in her mouth. Always.
Kari Luna
#79. Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea ...
Anna Letitia Barbauld
#80. Stop hiding condoms in my stuff. It's like some twisted Easter egg hunt in there.
Alyxandra Harvey
#81. Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg.
Dean Koontz
#82. Voclain needs an heir." "As she lacks the anatomical structures to lay an egg, my human issue will have to inherit." "Voclain is a Bloodkin legacy, one of the oldest - " "Then, mother, I suggest you get cracking and give me a brother. He can have Voclain. I'm going to be happy.
Erin Kellison
#83. Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.
Buddha
#84. You know, I always knew you were an egg-head when it came to bugs, Robbie, but I never realized how egg-centric you were. What an egg-citing diet you have! I guess the yolk is on you, though - " "Oh, shut up," Robbie mumbled,
Keith Robinson
#85. Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?
Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?
Toba Beta
#86. Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
Henry David Thoreau
#87. Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.
Tom Hollander
#88. A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
#89. Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone ...
Phyllis Bottome
#90. Whatever you just thought of, I'm not doing it." Egg
Jamie Scallion
#91. My whole life, I have been trying to cook an egg in the right way.
Jose Andres
#92. I always have hard-boiled eggs with me to eat egg whites for protein. Even when I travel, I bring eggs with me so I don't eat the plane food. Yes, I'm the person you do not want to sit next to with hard-boiled eggs.
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#93. Imagine," she said, her face turning serious for a moment, "imagine if something happened to one of us and there was no Easter egg hunt next year, imagine if everything stopped being perfect - you would wish so hard that you'd taken part today . . .
Lisa Jewell
#94. It no longer mattered if it was the chicken or the egg; it was quite simply a nest from which both beautiful and damaged things came.
Tessie Regan
#95. Is it the Well of Wisdom because Yggdrasil drinks from it, or does Yggdrasil drink from it because it is the Well of Wisdom?
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#96. It was as though the great black bird which had all the night nested the egg of the earth lifted its wings and let light under and then with gigantic thrust of pinion flew upwards and it was day.
Glendon Swarthout
#97. The hard reality is that the omelette has been made and you cannot get your egg back.
K.P. Fabian
#98. We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
Emily Dickinson
#99. They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.
Bob Uecker
#100. What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace an egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
Jack Vance
